Dave McCue's Podcast

Have you ever wondered if you might be an appropriate witness for the Gospel? Absolutely, but God always is there ahead of us preparing for His word to be heard. He does that by shaping our lives to fit into a culture, so that we...He might be heard. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into th...

The first sermon of the Gospel of John. An introduction to how the first 18 verses work in a chiasm, and the center point or focal point of that chiasm is, "he gave the right to become children of God."  So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just w...

Do you have a picture for getting rid of the load you're carrying? if not give this imagination exercise a listen and a try. It isn't the end all be all but it is something that has continually worked for me. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing j...

Relationships can be a mess. King David's mythically large life ends–just like many lives do–in a family squabble. Have you ever been in this kind of mess? Ever wonder what you might do in order to avoid it if possible? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, d...

Joe Coates stands in for me and preaches a message about the Holy Spirit in side us. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way o...

David is not a Biblical hero because he slays Goliath. If he is your hero for that you must also include Uriah, Bathsheba, Absolom and the treatment of Saul's descendants into the equation. No, David is not a hero in the standard sense of the word. He is a model though of sticking in–literally hanging in with God through thick and thin–that is the hero part of David. He responds to God. Somet...

The second most famous King David story (after Goliath) is this one of moral failure. It is often presented as a private matter between two people probably had never met, but...David's advisor Ahithofel was Bathsheba grandfather...Uriah was one of David's mighty men...He sends servants to get her, notes to his army commander, spies to follow him... This is not small issue. It has everyon...

The combined church service for Colville Assembly of God, Colville Free Methodist, Colville Nazarene, and us. Working together in the community to serve and together with the gifts that we have been given. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you...

Merib-baal had a great start in life, but when he was young life took a turn for the worse. Later, in 2 Samuel 9, when we see him again he has a new moniker that means "searing disgrace" and he lives in Lo-Debar (or a place we don't talk about.) But David, who has been blessed by God is seeking to bless him for his father, Jonathon's sake. Also, attached is a discussion regardi...

How do you react when God says, "No!" David is a hero in the Biblical story because of how he reacts when God says no to him...and God does so no, often.  So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any bett...

Have you ever seen too much ritual? Too little? Just like God's sovereignty and free will have to be kept in balance to have a good theology. These two ritual and casual need to also be kept in balance. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what yo...

Ted Pancoast stands in on Pentecost Sunday to give us a preview of his Global Lean Leadership Summit talk. In this talk Ted asks these three questions: 1) What impact have you been having in the world? 2) Are you happy with that impact? and 3) What impact do you want to have? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’...

This is a response to a question that was asked during the announcement time of this same service. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulle...

The whole reason that boneheaded people are included in the Bible, is that we have to interact with them here and now. Boneheads are part of our everyday life, which is exactly where God is doing His redemptive work in our lives. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of ev...

Jesus came that we might have life, and to the fullness of that life. What that doesn't mean is that everything is always perfect. Perfect in a rub some dirt on it, way. That isn't perfection, it is disconnection. It isn't real. In the same way thinking that everything is the end of the world isn't true either. But, God calls us to have a full life–a fully connected life and if...

Some commentaries call her the disciple too important to lose. Others say that there really isn't anything to the text. I say it isn't just about what it says but especially in this case it is about where it is located in the rest of the story. Acts 9 starts out with Saul threatening the church, and then he meets Jesus on the road in the Shekinah Glory, but the followers will have nothin...

How does God change us from doing what ever is our natural inclination to living out a kingdom life. First He pours love and generosity over us, then He gives us examples of how we might live differently, and then we are given the opportunity to both live that new life and be an example ourselves. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming wh...

Have you ever had to live in enemy territory? Maybe you just feel like it. When you read this text on the future King David living among the Philistines, don't moralize the text, which would remove mercy and God's sovereignty from the story. Also, don't secularize it, which would honor how smart and brave David was being and trivialize God. Instead, let the text stand with you and t...

There are many attitudes that we can consider ourselves prisoners to...fear, disappointment, regret, and more. We can even be prisoners to our ideas of what we think will be, especially if that idea is not from God, but from ourselves. I invite you to exchange whatever prison that you have for the hope that God implants within us. May you become a prisoner of that hope. So roll up your sleeves, pu...

When Jesus came into town riding a donkey. It meant that he came in peace. When the people waved palm branches and yelled Hosanna. It meant that they saw him as a king and wanted him to save them now. That is the easy part of Palm Sunday. The hard part is that the saving that Jesus was going to do...wasn't going to come in the way they wanted it. What will you do when your salvation doesn&apo...

CS Lewis' famous argument that Jesus was either a Liar, Lunatic or Lord (which wasn't initially his argument), was in response to a popular thought–that Jesus was just, or only, a good moral teacher. Many people have thought many things about who Jesus is. They thought he was John the Baptist, Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah or any number of prophets. But when Peter called him Lord and son of th...

When you read the Bible, do you find yourself in the story? Here are three stories that might help you find yourself there. First, Matthew 19:13-15: Jesus welcomes the little children. Second, John 8:2-11: The woman caught in adultery. and Third, John 3:1-15: Nicodemus and Jesus speak about being reborn. It is my hope that you might find yourself in the story, that you might see that there is corr...

What does it mean to live every day for Christ? Many never even ask the question as they prepare for Sunday to be different, fancier, more super substantial than the other six days of the week. Instead of thinking that faith is different for different days of the week; think of your faith as the same faith that brought you to repentance and the days as separate and distinct from your faith--as pla...

The Holy Spirit works in these three main ways as a spotlight ministry. First the spotlight is at work in us calling us to be different than we used to be. Second the spotlight is at work on us calling us as witnesses to the work He has done in us. Thirdly, the spotlight is at work through us showing us where we can join God in His work around us. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be...

Cracker Jack boxes have the prize inside. Don't you know that you are the Holy of Holies...the place where God dwells?! You have the prize inside and that prize transforms us. Butterfly. No body asks the new butterfly, "Did something happen to you?" Instead they ask, "What happened?" The transformation is obvious. Caterpillars don't fly and Butterflies don't craw...