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Forgiveness and Mixed Messages: Sorting Out Psychological, Scriptural, and Nouthetic Perspectives on Forgiveness (Guest Post by Rhoda Hostetler)

by Rebecca Davis | Aug 6, 2024 | guest post, untwisting Scriptures

I’m privileged to publish Rhoda’s research and personal experience regarding forgiveness. This article comes with a caution: child sexual abuse. *** Forgiveness, like any power, can be used for good or for ill. Understood and implemented correctly, it can...

How Pedophiles Are Forgiven, From the Teachings of Jay Adams

by Rebecca Davis | Feb 10, 2021 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures

This is Part 2 in my “Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Teachings” series. Part 1, about counseling a pedophile, can be found here. ***** Many years ago when I was a very young and very naïve teacher at a Christian high school, I caught a student blatantly...

That Forgiveness Talk at Harvest Bible Chapel

by Rebecca Davis | Apr 3, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures

Do you ever feel, when you watch a movie, that there was an underlying reason for it, maybe a bit of propaganda, so to speak, that it wanted to promote? It may be only a small part of the movie, but it makes a profound impact. (An example that come readily to mind is...

How to Handle Those “Forgive and Forget” Scriptures

by Rebecca Davis | Mar 5, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures

Occasionally I’ve talked with friends who have feared they haven’t really forgiven the person who harmed them. “I keep thinking about the harm,” she might say. “It keeps hurting. So that makes me think I haven’t really forgiven.” It’s not only a common feeling, but...

The “Root of Bitterness” in Hebrews–It Isn’t Unforgiveness

by Rebecca Davis | Jul 27, 2016 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures

 This post is part of a much larger project  exploring the Biblical concept of “bitterness,” looking at all the occurrences of the Hebrew and Greek words as they’re used throughout the Bible. This is important, because the accusation of...
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I’m Rebecca Davis, a trauma-informed writer, book coach, speaker, compassionate witness, prayer minister, and lover of Jesus who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
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