dumb sheep dave

Promoting Jesus Dependency

  • I worship human accomplishment.

    Others’ accomplishment.  My accomplishment.   I unwittingly worship/adore/revere that which wows me.   I’m wowed by excellence in human endeavor.  That is, when I’m ShepherdDave, leaning on my own understanding, wise in my own eyes, so I can captain my soul, master my fate.   Flagrant independence.   I’m not braggin, but confessin. Observing the excellence of others, strokes…

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  • Waiter murders two, then changed by Jesus.

    Brian Phillips is a young missionary hubby I mentor, who’s headed to Spain.  Your faith will be nurtured by reading below, these excerpts of his prayer update last week.  And if you’re looking for a new missionary family to support, check out their blog. http://briankassie.com –WeakDave, trying to promote more non-Christian fellowship To read past email…

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  • I’m not wowed by Jesus,

    unless I’ve been freshly convicted of my sin, and typically, my sin of independence/shepherdness/self-confidence/orphan-ness/self-reliance.   And I find that others aren’t wowed by the Jesus in me, if I’m not freshly wowed by Jesus, and His salvation of me, His righteousness imputed to me.   Especially pre-believers. Fixing my eyes and thoughts on Jesus doesn’t seem to…

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  • Why Dumb Sheep Dave?

    Because humans were made for dependency, like dumb sheep, and we encounter enormous stress when we created-dependents try and function as independents: shepherds.   Dumb sheep are protected from fear, frustration, discouragement, boredom, when we function as dumb sheep, looking to our Shepherd, curious and expectant to see what He will do next, rather than trying…

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  • Why I’m thankful the Church is so sick

    Jack Miller used to say that the difference between what would happen normally, and what happens with an infusion of grace, that difference, is the glory of God. So if we believers are known by the watching world for being the proudest, most self-righteous, poorest lovers of those most different from ourselves, and then are…

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  • Is Jesus the answer to all my problems?

    In other words, is He enough for me?  Or when I run to him with a problem, do I use Him, to get my way: want Him to fix it according to my agenda?   Or do I confess to Him, that He’s only enough for me, when He fixes my problems according to my agenda? …

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  • Not my problem, not my job.

    God’s problem, God’s job.  Wow.  I can’t tell you what a bombshell this has been for me.  Maybe obvious to you, and I feel a bit silly for feeling so profoundly impacted by such an obvious statement, but over the past month, this has been changing my life, and I can only conclude that it’s…

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  • Proclaiming the Gospel – Today

    Proclaiming the Gospel today, requires a different approach than in Paul’s day.  Seems to me.  Why?  Two thousand years of people all over the world, hearing about Christians and Christianity, with many negative opinions formed about us, most with justification.  What worked for Paul, doesn’t work today, with most audiences.  If Paul were here today,…

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  • Agendaless Living

    I’ve hardly ever experienced it.   Intellectually, I know that I’m supposed to follow Jesus, because He is supposedly Lord of my life, but in my typical day, it’s all about my agenda, my will, and this causes me to be intense, driven, joyless and peaceless unless things momentarily go my way, but even then, I…

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  • What I Want More Than Anything in the World

    is Jesus-dependency.  Whatever it takes, DaddyJesusSpirit, to get me from Dave-dependency to Jesus-dependency, that’s what I want: I offer up to you my health, my ministry, my savings, my reputation: do with them whatever is best, for me and for Your Kingdom.  I do not know what is best, though my flesh wants me to…

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