by Rebecca Davis | Jun 5, 2013 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
I don’t really hate it . . . but I dislike it a lot. It has such a beautiful title: “I Am Satisfied with Jesus.” My heart leaps up in response to that title. Yes! It’s an old song, sung in the churches in which I grew up, so you may not know...
by Rebecca Davis | May 23, 2013 | challenging the status quo
I’m learning about some pretty horrific stuff that’s been allegedly going on in the Sovereign Grace Ministries circles. Not that I was unfamiliar with the problems there—SGM Survivors have been blogging since about 2007, and I’ve known about the blogs and occasionally...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 26, 2013 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
A friend brought to my attention a very legalistic article, Why Should Christians Attend Church? by Dale Robbins. Each statement is flawed, and on that friend’s blog I answered each one point by point. Now I’m reposting here. (1) Is church attendance an...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 10, 2013 | challenging the status quo
That’s what the Israelites said after they got the report from the spies about those giants in the land of Canaan. Eight or nine feet tall. Made the spies feel like grasshoppers. “Who is God trying to kid? There’s no way we can go in there and take the land of Canaan...
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 | 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...