Yes, the next Untwisting Scriptures book is coming soon! Here’s the front cover, with many thanks to my photographer, my model, and the cover designer (my husband).
Believe it or not, I tried to see if AI could come up with artwork I liked for a cover photo. But the Artificial Intelligence didn’t understand my requests at all and came up with some things that were pretty doggone bizarre. (I wish I’d saved them.)
So I went back to asking a friend to model and my faithful photographer (this is the fourth Untwisting Scriptures book she’s done) to do the shoot.
Many twisted teachings about brokenness and suffering have endured in fundamentalism and evangelicalism, as survivors who have been in those circles can tell you, so I had a good bit of material to draw from.
In this book, one of the things I’ve done is trace the “brokenness as a lifestyle” teaching back to Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth, a popular teacher for women. Her take on the topic is . . . interesting. And I might add, not that difficult to unravel Biblically.
The book has already been through its beta readers, who have given me a significant amount of feedback to make it better, for which I’m always very grateful. Here are a few of their comments:
Oh. Wow! Your book is just amazing and my heart just felt a balm running through as I read it. Thank you for it and the ministry that you are doing in the church with it. So many points I just about shouted as I read along with you.
Another fantastic book that will bring much healing to individuals and, hopefully, to the body of Christ. I will use this as a resource in my counseling.
The way you led the reader into the reality of spiritual abuse and the way you present God’s word, His love, felt like those chains were broken.
Your style of writing pulled me in, and in untwisting God’s word, you have truly untwisted my heart too. You unwinding my soul from the twisted mess so many Christians put me in is beyond appreciated. This book is pure gold to me.
I’m so excited for you and all of the people that will read this! I finished your book in tears and feeling closer to my Savior than I have in a long time.
Something monumental happened while reading your new book. You caused deep healing to take place! For a long time, I’ve not been able to pick up a Bible, let alone go to church. Now I know a different Jesus and different Scriptures.
I’m in the process of making edits and revisions now, and the book should be ready to go out to my Book Launch Team within a week or so.
“What’s a Book Launch Team,” you ask, “and can I join?”
Glad you asked, heh.
You can actually go here to see more about what a Book Launch Team does and sign up for it. Basically, if you join, you will
1. Read the early copy of the book I’ll send you as a pdf.
2. Write an honest review of it and hold that review for the Book Launch.
3. When I let you know the book has been published on Amazon, you’ll download your FREE Kindle copy of the book, upload your review, and then let others know they can get the e-book for free for a limited time. (I’ll send all the techie instructions as to how to do those things, in case you need them.)
Please join us for a Blast-Off Book Launch that I hope will help many more Jesus followers see that our life in Jesus Christ is far better than they ever knew.
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Go here to download your free Guide, How to Enjoy the Bible Again (when you’re ready) After Spiritual Abuse (without feeling guilty or getting triggered out of your mind). You’ll receive access to both print and audio versions of the Guide (audio read by me). I’m praying it will be helpful.
What a beautiful and insightful cover! Thank you for this!
I’ve read your previous Untwisting books – they were brilliant, and I am so much looking forward to this fifth book. It is amazing how people can twist and misuse so much of Scripture, even though it is such a simple thing to understand. Thank you for all you have done, are doing, and will continue to do.
Thank you, Lorraine!
Love it! The way she is holding on to her Bible, like it’s precious to her again! And her face turned toward her savior, the chains no longer holding her down… beautiful!!
I could help you with the launch, if you still need more people.
Yes, please do sign up! The ideal number of people for the Launch is as many as we can get. 🙂
Dearest Rebecca,
Thank you for all your Untwisting The Scriptures books! They’ve helped this soul more than words can say!
Above you mentioned Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth and something in her teaching that I was not aware of about “brokenness as a lifestyle.” I don’t follow her closely. Could you please explain with just a scoche more detail about how this relates to your work? It seemed like a dangling topic above and you’ve piqued my interest. Now I want to discern Nancy’s model when I come across it.
Many thanks and blessings from a devoted reader!
This book addresses twisted teachings related to “Brokenness and Suffering.” One of the topics is Nancy’s teaching that we should live “brokenness as a lifestyle.”
Thanks for mentioning NDW. I listened to her for years plus other teachers like Macarthur and Piper. It has done alot of damage. Learning the truth from Rebecca’s books. Read the first one and the next 2 will arrive tomorrow. I told my friend at church about Rebecca’s books and she read them all. I am so sad I’ve been duped for so long but thankful for Rebecca’s teachings in untwisting scriptures.
Love the cover! She is looking towards the sun, clinging to the Word of God with one arm, and the chain is held in her hand – not attached to her wrist. It speaks freedom and says ‘my chains are gone’! Looking forward to reading the book when it comes out.
This woman knows she is free because the TRUTH has set her free. Her face is radiant! Her chains are gone and she is rejoicing in the hope of her Savior Jesus Christ
Amen!
Beautiful cover, Rebecca, but an even more tender, beautiful message inside for sufferers.
Thank you, friend. <3
I’m very much looking forward to this new book, Rebecca. I’ve mentioned in earlier communications that I was spoon-fed the gospel since the day I was born. My father, a gospel chalk artist, was given a good training in the Bible (he was an ordained minister) my mother graduated from Fort Wayne Bible institute (where she and my dad met) and she read the entire Bible narrative to me, my brother and sister at least twice – or close. I was also taught about this fact that we can read the Bible in a year if you read three chapters each weekday and five on Sunday, so by the time I got to Bible school myself, I already knew quite a bit.
But we heard a lot of other Bible teachers as well and I’d often questioned the way they were teaching because I wasn’t sure it was biblical. And you address a lot of issues that I had when I was growing up, and believe me I appreciate your books a lot.
So I am really looking forward to this new book coming out. I think it’s going to answer a lot of questions that I’ve had and still to a certain extent have.
God bless you in great abundance!
Thank you so much, Linda. I, like you, grew up in a home where I learned the Bible stories very well. I did start studying the Bible on my own from a fairly young age, though, and only later found out that wasn’t common among Christians.
Thank you so much, Rebecca for these books..I really needed these coming from a Reformed OPC background
Most Reformed OPC teachings are very toxic.. especially Nancy Demoss John Piper and the worst in my opinion John Macarthur