busy doing many good things through planning and management, using our human-wisdom? Do we need Jesus to grow us into a Mary Church,...

With joy, and without joy. Watch-it-happen Christians, and make-it-happen Christians. DEpendent Christians and INdepenent Christians. ...

Why do we view confession as negative? Because confession means failure, and failure-avoidance explains so much of why we do, when we...

sin is self-contempt, the most-painful IDOL is self-contempt-avoidance. Failure-avoidance. Explains why we Christians do, what we do,...

is the sin of self-contempt -- being irritated with ourselves. So most of us Christians live in denial -- unconsciously suppressing...

or myself, or my circumstances, I'm NEVER Jesus-dependent, ALWAYS human-wisdom-dependent. Wise in my own eyes, learning on my own...

by your circumstances -- no good options, causing you to feel joyless and peaceless, maybe even panicky, your perspective is being...

Outside humility and inside humility. Human-wisdom-rooted humility and Spirit-rooted humility. Worldly-humility and other-worldly...

is Jesus' world, compared to Dave's world -- where human accomplishment, performance, feeling superior to SOMEbody, or somebodies, is...

How can I tell which one I'm experiencing? In Dave's world, my life is UP TO ME, and I have an agenda, and am easily irritated, and...