by Rebecca Davis | Aug 29, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity
Hang on. This is not to say that’s never a good thing to pray. I’ve prayed it, and I don’t regret praying it. It’s not unbiblical. But it’s also not Biblical. That is, it’s not in the Bible anywhere—no one ever prayed for God to use anyone, and the readers of the...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 22, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
You can listen to me reading this article here: A couple of weeks ago someone forwarded to me an article from Desiring God that hit me like a punch in the stomach. In an article called “Kicked Out of Church: How God Brought Me Home” (link), author Scarlett Clay...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 8, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Back in the days when I taught math, I often helped my students with a complicated problem by presenting them with a more obvious problem that was similar. Solving the more obvious problem would usually help them see the steps they needed to follow in order to figure...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 7, 2017 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures
Recently Desiring God published an article telling us that discontent is Satan’s trap against every woman (link). In the style of Screwtape Letters, author Rebekah Wilson Merkle offers “advice” from one demon to another. Here is a sampling: Keep...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 21, 2017 | challenging the status quo
Hi Darrell~ Someone just alerted me to your “Your marriage is designed to kill you” (link) blog post, so I suppose at some point I’ll be replying to it on my own blog. I wanted to ask, before I do that, if you’d be willing to write a disclaimer...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 20, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures
addressing the false teaching of “daily dying to self,” part 4 Part 1 (link) introduces how detrimental this concept can be in the context of an abusive marriage, and gives my husband Tim a platform to speak. Part 2 (link) addresses Scriptures such as “I die daily,”...