Our Story

August 17th, 2025

We dislike how men’s clothes—especially men’s clothes from Christian brands—sometimes seem overdone and cliché. We want tee shirt designs that we would actually wear. Designs that harness just an ounce of the infinite redemptive power of Scripture and bring it to life. Designs that make us stop and realize that in every moment we can incline ourselves towards the Lord and shun evil. This is why we wanted to start David Messiah: to share God with the world and elevate Him.

The name of this brand was born out of our lead graphic designer's second favorite biblical figure King David and the fact that David's descendant is the messiah. Now, we had to make something worth giving to the world and to God. 

David Messiah rejects the neat, invisible boundaries that usually set the destiny of traditional Christian brands. No, we don’t sell crosses, ten thousand other brands do that. Nevertheless, crosses are sorely needed in a world where hundreds of millions of people need to know God. No, we don’t sell tee shirts with obvious maxims like “Faith over fear.”—because it’s already been done, and done well. Nevertheless, people need those shirts because we live in uncertain times. 

But we wanted to do something different.

We endeavored to dig deeper into Scripture in order to uncover the archetypal struggles and heroes that we often take for granted. What can David's descent into the depths of animal depravity and ascent into the greatest human triumphs tell us about ourselves?

Our only goal with David Messiah is to express fervent devotion to God and inspire godliness in others through the art form of fashion. At the time of this writing, our sole customer so far is the lovely mother of our lead graphic designer. We are so grateful to even sell one shirt. And whether we only ever sell one shirt or we sell one-hundred thousand shirts, we are sanguine. For the Lord is our shepherd, and we delight in Him in all our days. We hope he delights in what we can create. Glory to Him alone.