I mentor a number of CEO’s of nonprofit ministries. For the past several years I’ve been mentoring Pete and Wendy Hileman, as the three of us go through the suffering together of Wendy’s Parkinson’s, and as Pete has been leading one of my favoritest ministries, to the poor in Philly. Below is his latest update…

Whether I like it or not. Whyzat? I think I’m addicted to analyzing, critiquing, judging, and I do that with every movie I watch. Thumbs up, or down. I agree or disagree with the IMDB rating, and by however many points. It’s God-like. Heady thing to sit in judgment over everything and everyone. So when…

of everyone just as we are, and everything just as it is, all according to the genius plan of Jesus, but the worldly-like old self is a judge/competitor to everyone. We worldly Christians frequently need the Spirit to freshly convict us of our worldliness, so we momentarily stop being wise in our own eyes, leaning…

around us? So we can judge them? Or ENJOY them? Just as they are? Just as He’s created them? Are we Christians judges/competitors, or ENJOYers? Did Jesus really command us to love our “enemies” — humans most different from ourselves? — Dave McCarty, GospelFriendships, normally judge/competitor of all, except when freshly convicted of functioning as…

for where I am today, have been WRONG. Ambition, determination, strength, hustle, competitiveness, analyzing, critiquing, judging, striving for excellence, are all worldly values, where reality is informed by eyes and ears, not Scripture. “And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another.” Eccl 4:4 When I became a…

I feel ALONE and in CHARGE of my life. I only DEEPLY relax, am only EVER patient, content, when I am momentarily believing Jesus is totally sovereign over everything and everyone. Otherwise, it’s UP TO DAVE. Before Jesus began growing me in self-awareness, I had no idea I have tension in my body most of…

What? That’s right. When your life is easy, you don’t need Jesus. When you feel overwhelmed, you can’t seem to get on top of your circumstances, AND, you are more likely to run to Jesus, CONFESS your INdependence/pride/insanity/orphan-mindset/worldliness. Desperate people do desperate things. Desperate Christians run to Jesus. Jesus is a much-better navigator through troubled…

you can smile at your failures, humiliating circumstances. When your own performance means little to you compared to the imputed performance of Jesus. When you don’t even enjoy the failures of others — including jerks. When Jesus is everything to you, and everything else is almost nothing. When you enjoy everyone — including politicians and…

AGENDA. Only INdependents/worldlies/orphans experience intensity/agenda. Every intense human is critical-judgmental, always judging everyone and everything as excellent, average or poor. Gracious, humble humans enjoy everyone just as we are, and everything just as it is. By contrast, we intense humans are circumstance-dependent for our joy and peace, so we experience little joy, and Jesus ain’ta…

For those Christians who think I talk TOO much about sin, who don’t like hearing so much about sin because they already SEE their sin everywhere and it’s depressing, I suggest that it’s only depressing IF a Christian is unsatisfied with Jesus and His imputed worthiness. Anytime you find yourself with little joy, you need…