by Rebecca Davis | Dec 2, 2019 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
Deborah Brunt is an abuse survivor who blogs at Key Truths. ***** In the Deep South, you know you’re in trouble when someone says, “Bless your heart!” It means, by translation, “Wow! What a hopeless mess you’re in!” or, “Wow! What a hopeless fool you are!” or, “Wow,...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 26, 2019 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
This is a burden on my heart (that I pulled from yesterday’s post because it deserved its own) because I believe this understanding is crucial to becoming the people of God He has called us to be. I pray it will help someone the way similar teachings helped me...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 25, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
Recently I received a question from my friend Ana Harris. She said, When people’s prayers for God to be glorified in my suffering are disconnected from his goodness and love, they start to sound rather cruel, almost like God is using me and taking pleasure in my pain....
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 21, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, news and musings
You can listen to me read this article here: It may feel like voyeurism, reading about it, if you don’t know any of these people. But as I’ve been saying for some time now, I can be pretty doggone certain that you do know or at least interact with a survivor of sex...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 12, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, survivor stories
Erika Smith grew up in an abusive home in which the parents claimed Christianity. She is still a follower of Jesus in spite of the way she and her siblings were treated by her parents and the casual “forgive and forget” dismissal she has received from churches where...