by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
It’s actually a beautiful verse. But sometimes it’s used as a cudgel. After I had heard two different people refer to this Bible verse as a verb (as a cudgel that had been used against them), I knew it was time to write about it. Here it is: Beautiful verse, right? A...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 8, 2019 | untwisting Scriptures
I have friends who are walking through hellish darkness in trying to recover and stay safe from evil perpetrated on them and their children that, when they entered their marriages, they had no inkling even existed. I have friends who are trying to stay safe from being...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 1, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, seeking Jesus
For those who want to do something significant with your lives . . . For those who want to do hard things, not just for the sake of doing something hard, but for the sake of doing something that will last and will have meaning beyond yourself . . . I invite you I...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 24, 2019 | For the Protectors, our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures
Quiz time. What’s wrong with that statement in the title? Answer . . . There’s no antecedent for the “it.” (As a writer, editor, and English teacher, I’m troubled by a missing antecedent because of the ambiguity it creates. And yes, that sentence was a little...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 17, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Umm . . . yes, he really did call it a sin, an “enticing sin,” in fact. That is, Joe Rigney, the Desiring God author, truly did say that empathy is bad and even a trick of the devil. And the majority of the commenters on the Facebook post of the article...