dumb sheep dave

Promoting Jesus Dependency

  • ShepherdDave wants to be AnswerMan,

    the super-hero with all the answers to all the questions about the Bible, politics, health, and all of life.  At 72, ShepherdDave really does have a lot of knowledge and therefore a lot of answers, opinions, and he’s momentarily happy when given the opportunity to express his opinion.  But he’s pathetically circumstance-dependent for his joy…

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  • Unless the Spirit convicts me

    of sin as I read Scripture — especially the sin of independence/worldliness/pride, reading Scripture is as detrimental to my spiritual health as it was to the Pharisees: nurtures independence/worldliness/pride/self-confidence/self-reliance in me.  ShepherdDave. Best thing I can do when I begin reading Scripture is to ask for the Spirit afresh to use Scripture to expose the…

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  • Jesus at work in Philly.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfPDTOIeT4 Mike Major, a good friend of mine and longtime boardmember of GospelFriendships is the software development manager for a big investment company, lives in Philly, loves Jesus, and has a heart for the poor in Philly.  He’s adopted Bethune Elementary School, a public school in an under-served area of Philly, and has been working…

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  • ShepherdDave feels the need to have an opinion

    about everything in the Bible and in life, prides himself on being a biblical expert, can’t imagine being humiliated for not knowing something, or being wrong. But DumbSheepDave feels a freedom to not know about everything in the Bible, not understand everything that Jesus had to say.  It’s not cool to not know, but DumbSheepDave…

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  • Jesus, we need miracles in our day,

    in order for pre-believers to believe, especially the turned-off, and more especially, the antagonistic.  If we believers were miraculously changed by You, so that we operate in out-of-character ways – amazingly humble and amazingly loving, with joy and peace that have nothing to do with our circumstances, the pre-believers around us would be wowed and…

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  • What is stupid-awe?

    Being in awe of human excellence – others and my own, or wanting to be in awe of my own, by assuming excellence is credited to humans achieving greatness, or a product achieving greatness.  Intermediate-awe.  Misplaced-awe.  Horizontal-awe.  Only the competitive have stupid-awe.  ShepherdDave.  Intense, prideful. Jesus-awe is recognizing that Jesus the CreatorSustainer of the Universe,…

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  • Am I showing respect

    to atheists, agnostics, Jewish folks, and others who don’t celebrate the birth of Jesus, by wishing them, “Merry Christmas”?  Should I insist everybody celebrate the birth of Jesus?  Should I pressure companies to say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”?  Or complain because they don’t?  Or try and legislate my values on others who don’t…

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  • I wannabe in awe of ME.

    I’ve been addicted to self-awe all my life, but I’ve lived in denial, because it’s so humiliating/embarrassing to see myself as an egomaniac, when I’ve thought of myself in much-more noble terms.  I’ve been clear-sighted about self-deception in others, but blind to my own.  I should have known better, because I’ve been quoting my wife…

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  • Racism is not our biggest problem.

    It’s a huge problem, but not our biggest.  A lack of humility is our biggest problem as a nation.  Prideful self-righteousness.  The left is intolerant, clear-sighted about the blindness of the right, and right is intolerant, clear-sighted about the blindness of the left.  The opposition is wrong, and I’m right.  That’s our biggest problem.  Polarized…

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  • When I’m not in awe of Jesus,

    I’m always in awe of me.  Not even others.  Me.  I pay attention to others, because I compete with them, all of them, from somebodies to nobodies, always looking for their weakness, even an Achilles’ heel if necessary.  So that.  I can feel superior to them.  So that.  I can feel good about myself.  Because. …

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