by Rebecca Davis | Apr 20, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, Recommended, untwisting Scriptures
Scout’s honor, I didn’t start out to make this a blog post about Mark Driscoll. I was thinking about how those with hardened/polluted/jettisoned/seared consciences take advantage of those with sensitive/weak consciences, and I wanted to study conscience in the Bible...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 25, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
In February of 2014, a popular author and blogger posted an article called “Three Things Christians Should Stop Doing on Social Media.” Ordinarily I wouldn’t have been aware of it at all, but it was reposted many times by supporters of Bob Jones...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 2, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, seeking Jesus
I recently finished reading the book What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars, by Pulitzer-prize-winning war journalist David Wood (Little, Brown, 2016). When my husband brought it home from the library my interest was piqued because I hoped it might...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 18, 2017 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures
Why does it matter whether or not all sin is described as idolatry? It has surprised me, as I’ve researched it, how many Christians simply assume that all Christians churn out idols. To think that everyone who worships Jesus Christ is all the time actually worshiping...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 4, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
In the beginning, I had a little blog called Here’s the Joy on which I just wanted to blog about the Christian life and the wonderful truths of the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ in us, the Hope of glory. I was happy with my eight readers, and life was...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 16, 2016 | challenging the status quo
Hypocrisy. Presenting oneself one way (perceived as good) in public while actively living a different way (definitely bad) in private. Sort of like this: And of course the problem of hypocrisy is made far worse if the hypocrite isn’t just presenting himself as...