by Rebecca Davis | May 25, 2014 | news and musings
It’s been two years (only two years!) since the Lord began regularly bringing sexual abuse survivors into my life, and my heart hurts. I was scrolling back through some of my correspondence to retrieve some information, and I came across a letter I wrote to a...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 4, 2014 | news and musings
I recently had the privilege of doing a storytelling event for a children’s church group, from one of my books of true missionary stories. This story was first published in Peace Child by Don Richardson, and comprises two chapters in the book Witness Men: True...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 26, 2014 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus
“How can I pray for you?” I asked my friend. She mentioned a few things. Then she hesitated. “I have so much trouble with sin,” she said. “I keep sinning. I feel suspicious of people, that they don’t like me. I’m so jealous—-I see other people doing well, and I feel...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 13, 2014 | news and musings, our New Covenant identity
It seemed like a normal day. I was going about my ordinary household tasks, for the most part on automatic. But during the course of the day I became aware of where my heart was going. I realized I was continuing to be bombarded by temptations in my thoughts, coyly...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 11, 2014 | challenging the status quo
If Bill Gothard had lived at the time of William Wilberforce, he might have called him aside just before one of his impassioned speeches against the slave trade to Parliament (many or most of whose members greatly benefited directly or indirectly from the slave trade)...