by Rebecca Davis | Aug 23, 2014 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
Years ago we left my Independent Fundamental Baptist roots–not because of rules so much, or a particular bad experience, but because in our study of the Bible, some of our beliefs had changed so fundamentally that we no longer fit. In searching for where we...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 7, 2014 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
How was it that I had begun to take certain wrongdoing so lightly? How was it that I could justify theft? I was a graduate assistant at Bob Jones University. That meant while I was taking my grad classes, I was also working thirty hours a week at Bob Jones University...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 1, 2014 | our New Covenant identity
I first published this one in November in 2009, shortly after a time, because of unusually traumatizing circumstances, when I believed I was approaching a nervous breakdown. I wrestled with God through Psalm 131 and saw Him bring me out on the other side. *** This...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 25, 2014 | news and musings
I first posted this piece in February of 2010. Update on it below! ****** I’ve been reading The Heavenly Man to my two teenagers at lunchtime. This book, which deeply influenced me three years ago, is about the great revival that took place in China in the 1970s...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2014 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
This was a question that someone asked me who hadn’t been to church in a while, because for some, the church can sometimes seem hurtful. As I’m wont with expressions that seem trendy, I said, “That expression seems trendy, and it isn’t in the Bible. So let’s...