My Response to “Don’t Waste Your Cancer” (guest post by Sharon Odio)
From Sharon: A friend asked me to read this little booklet by John Piper so we could discuss it. The booklet contains 11 short chapters with headings. Note that “cancer” is a term John Piper uses as a placeholder, expecting us to fill in the blank with whatever trial...David and Goliath at the Coffee Shop: Reflections on my 68th Birthday
You can listen to me read this article here: A while back I had a David and Goliath experience. I’ve certainly thought about the faith David had when he faced the giant. But I’ve never really thought much about what it was like for him when he first arrived...When Complaining Is Actually the Right Thing to Do
You can listen to me reading this article here: Many of us have been taught that complaining is a sin, definitely a sign of not trusting God. But the Scriptures give us a different picture. The difference between grumbling in rebellion and crying out in...A Response to Christianity Today’s Debunking of the “Satanic Panic”
First, let’s keep the Main Thing the main thing. God is good, and He loves His children and wants to have relationship with us. I still marvel at that every time I think about it. The Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is the way for us to have...“This email sounds good, but . . .”
Not long ago a reader asked me to help me understand what was wrong with an email she had received from a writer whose email list she subscribed to. It was one of those that sounded good but sounded . . . a little off. She just couldn’t quite put her finger on it. I...
I’m Rebecca Davis, a trauma-informed writer, book coach, speaker, compassionate witness, prayer minister, and lover of Jesus who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
See my work as a trauma-informed book coach and ghostwriter at rebeccadaviswordworking.com