by Rebecca Davis | Dec 2, 2014 | challenging the status quo
One of the most memorable Peanuts comic strips to me in my childhood ran something like this: Linus was complaining about how Lucy always harassed him. Charlie Brown: Next time, get her to define her terms. Lucy (later, to Linus): You’re fat! Linus: Fat? I’m...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 24, 2014 | challenging the status quo
I didn’t know, back when I passively accepted some of these false teachings—it didn’t even occur to me what the grim outworking, the rotten fruit, would be. But now . . . I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it in the lives of people I love. In some Christian circles people are...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 23, 2014 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
Years ago we left my Independent Fundamental Baptist roots–not because of rules so much, or a particular bad experience, but because in our study of the Bible, some of our beliefs had changed so fundamentally that we no longer fit. In searching for where we...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 7, 2014 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
How was it that I had begun to take certain wrongdoing so lightly? How was it that I could justify theft? I was a graduate assistant at Bob Jones University. That meant while I was taking my grad classes, I was also working thirty hours a week at Bob Jones University...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2014 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
This was a question that someone asked me who hadn’t been to church in a while, because for some, the church can sometimes seem hurtful. As I’m wont with expressions that seem trendy, I said, “That expression seems trendy, and it isn’t in the Bible. So let’s...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 26, 2014 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus
“How can I pray for you?” I asked my friend. She mentioned a few things. Then she hesitated. “I have so much trouble with sin,” she said. “I keep sinning. I feel suspicious of people, that they don’t like me. I’m so jealous—-I see other people doing well, and I feel...