is growing me more self-aware and more dependent on Him? When His Spirit freshly exposes to me my unbelief in His sovereign reign over every detail of my life, convicting me of feeling ALONE and in CHARGE of my life — uncurious and unexpectant about what Jesus does NEXT, in me, others, circumstances. Ahhh. He…

is what I’m like — worldly-like. Wise in my own eyes, leaning on my own understanding. Agendafied. Willful. Confident-I-know-what’s-best. Irritated with certain others, feeling superior to them. Circumstance-dependent for my joy and peace. Conditional lover of others, self, Jesus, and His plan for everyone. LOVE His plan, when things go my way. Love HIM when…

for today. Dunno about tomorrow, next month/year/decade, but for right now, our circumstances are perfect for us, according to Jesus’ genius plan for each of us kids of His. But NOOOOO, our human-wisdom thinks Jesus could do better by us. WRONG. Jesus has carefully crafted these circumstances, as harrrd as they may be, for our…

is thankfulness for everything just as it is, and everyone just as we are, especially irritating people. Seeing SovereignJesus behind everything and everyone. The mark of a proud Christian is confidence based on human-wisdom — confidence-I-know-what’s-thankable-and-what’s-not, and confidence-I-know-what’s-best, and confidence in assessing/judging everything and everyone. Oblivious to Jesus’ sovereignty. And His Lordship. Seculars are drawn…

my human-wisdom, and the human-wisdom of others — especially experts. I love learning from experts, researching experts. I love the idea of BEING an expert. I love my human-wisdom, love being wise in my own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Human-wisdom is foundational to government, to organizations, to navigating daily life. But human-wisdom…

is a big problem if we don’t have a foundation of grace in our lives — totally believe that He loves us just as we are. But this is not our BIGgest problem. An even bigger problem is our view of ourselves. Unless we’re unusually-self-aware we won’t realize how much self-contempt-avoidance explains so much of…

to be irritated with ourselves for our struggle to trust Jesus — our failure to THANK Him for the harrrd, this is pride, not humility. Human-wisdom-dependency, not Jesus-dependency. A humble Christian has compassion on himself when struggling with harrrd circumstances. A proud Christian demands s/he do better in trusting/thanking. A humble Christian accepts himself as…

For Christians everywhere, JesusGlasses are the smart glasses that solve our biggest problem as we go through life — not being able to actually SEE Jesus behind everyone and everything. This technology marvel is expected to be priced at $4,995, and come with a battery life of 12 hours. Great for watching sporting events, TV,…

improvement to Jesus’ plan for his present life. Yes, HumanWisdomDependentDave knows a multitude of ways Jesus could do better by him. Problem is, Dave’s human-wisdom has NEVER delivered happiness, only addiction to getting Dave’s way. Terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad way to live. Claiming to be a Jesus-follower, but in reality, following his human-wisdom, and the…

And I love Mike Major, who grew up poor in North Philly, but Christians reached out to him, loved him, nurtured him, enabling him to graduate from college and become an analyst for a Wall Street firm, and now he’s giving back to the old neighborhood, part time, hoping these ideas are contagious throughout the…