dumb sheep dave

Promoting Jesus Dependency

  • I’m either a rejecter or an enjoyer.

    There is no middle ground in my life.  When I’m DumbSheepDave, I’m an enjoyer of others, myself, just a we are, and an enjoyer of Jesus, and His genius plan for everyone, just as it is.  The sovereignty of Jesus is overwhelming.  I ooze with patience.  Blissful. When I’m ShepherdDave, I’m looking for perfection in…

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  • How is Donald Trump

    any different from opinionated liberals and conservatives, who love to dismiss and ridicule the opposition? What we have in the way of a divided nation unable to compromise, is the same kind of self-righteous pride we see in Trump and Clinton. We deserve no better. Many thought we were getting a unifier in President Obama,…

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  • How much excellence is enough?

    Just a little bit more.  How much frugality is enough?  Just a little bit more.  How much somebodiness is enough?  Just a little bit more.  How much savings is enough?  Just a little bit more.  How much obedience is enough?  Just a little bit more.  How much sports-team righteousness is enough?  Just a little bit…

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  • A humble person is not fearful.

    Or bothered by ridicule, humiliation, failure.  A humble person learns from failure, has compassion on jerks, abusers, enemies, but is not afraid to stand up for self, or others.  A humble person is not defensive, welcomes criticism, is not competitive, has nothing to prove to others or self.  A humble person is not intense, does…

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  • In light of all the rain/gray in Pennsylvania

    this past week, this song that I heard for the first time Wednesday, really resonated with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korFkTbE6HI But the problem with songs about Heaven, is that they don’t talk about having a TASTE of Heaven right now, today, through fresh conviction of sin, especially the sin of independence/confidence-I-know-what’s-best.  LIFE is possible today, but we…

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  • How does a parent train up a child

    in the values of the Upside-down Kingdom of Jesus – other-worldly humility and other-worldly love?  How does any parent raise humble, loving kids? The parent needs a contagious humility and love, because the conscience is reached through humility and love.  The parent who reaches a child’s conscience, is loving and humble ENOUGH to be the…

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  • In this Cursed world,

    independency is essential to understanding human behavior in both nonbelievers and believers.  Even though we are all created-dependents, we all function as independents, wise in our own eyes, leaning on our own understanding.  Dependency is impossible, since the Fall, and only the work of Jesus’ Spirit in a believer, enables momentary dependency/humility/cluelessness-I-know-what’s-best.  The bliss of…

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  • The sin of independence

    goes unrecognized, unconfessed, by ShepherdDave — who considers himself a follower of Jesus.  The sin of independence is the-biggest-single reason ShepherdDave is so non-reproducing, so fruitless in adult evangelism, so dismissed by the nonbelievers around him.  ShepherdDave ASSUMES Jesus wants him doing this or that, or, he willfully DOES.  He doesn’t ASK.  And he doesn’t…

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  • The worst prison of all,

    is the worst addiction of all — somebodiness-addiction.  When I became a Christian at age 24, my somebodiness-addiction began to migrate from outside the Church, to inside the Church.  Or better — I added to my secular-somebodiness-addiction, spiritual-somebodiness-addiction.  Double the strokes.  Kewl in the secular arena, and kewl in the Church arena. My somebodiness-addiction isn’t…

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  • DumbSheepDave never researches a decision.

    Only ShepherdDave researches anything, because only ShepherdDave has understanding-idolatry, the primary idol of every independent.  Only understanding-idolators experience frustration, anxiety, discouragement.  Only understanding-idolators are confident-they-know-what’s-best for themselves and others.  Only understanding-idolators have opinions about politics, Church, the world, the Christian life.  Only understanding-idolators are pontificators. Dependents/childlikes like DumbSheepDave are clueless-they-know-what’s-best for self or others.  They…

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