by Rebecca Davis | Mar 3, 2013 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, sanctification by faith alone
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. When a young friend of mine became discouraged about the smallness of her love for God, I asked her, “Before you were saved, how much did it bother you...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 9, 2013 | news and musings
I’m enrolled in the fifteen-week course Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. I listen to amazing speakers, read and read and read some more, and do a lot of homework. Why add this class to all that I’m already doing? Because I wanted very much to have a...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 27, 2013 | news and musings, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus
Margaret Powers wrote a poem. It was about a man, but when I remembered it, I saw a woman. She was walking with God, so there were two sets of footprints. But sometimes there was just one, and she didn’t know why. She found out that they were when the Lord had...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 13, 2013 | news and musings, sanctification by faith alone
When a theme is trendy, I tend to avoid it. For good or ill, my gut reaction is if everybody’s doing it, to back off. Shucks, I might not have even followed Jesus when He was on earth, because of all those crowds. That’s why it took me about eight years to...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 6, 2013 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity
The response that I’ve posted here on Amazon is really more of a commentary on Jay Adams’ “nouthetic counseling” perspective on sanctification. Does Godliness really come through development of habits, as Jay Adams has been teaching since the...