by Rebecca Davis | Dec 27, 2009 | news and musings, sanctification by faith alone
Teaching English as a Second Language has taught me something about English: There are loads of rules. People from other countries who just have to learn the rules and then all the rules about the rules (meta-rules?) can feel utterly overwhelmed with the complexity of...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 20, 2009 | our New Covenant identity
I could make a metaphor about the pea-brained bird that kept banging at the window for an hour trying to get in to a place that he would have found out too late he didn’t want to be. You know where it would have gone: I would have applied it to our frenetic...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 28, 2009 | news and musings
Dr. John Dreisbach was one of the “old school” missionaries, who spent his life serving as a career missionary doctor and evangelist in various places around the world. When he died, I was working on a children’s book about his adventures in western...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 15, 2009 | our New Covenant identity
I was doing a Biblical word study, because I wanted to understand the concept of perfection, often translated “maturity.” After all, with two children young adults, it seemed about time. Mature, perfect, complete, sanctified, holy, whole-hearted. The study...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 13, 2009 | birthday reflections, our New Covenant identity
In honor of my fifty-second birthday season this past week, I re-read some old journals (always an instructive venture). I went back to 2003, as far back as they go on my current computer. I found the entire year, with the rare exception of an occasional glimmer of...