How Can I Give Grace?
I can’t. I don’t mean I’m incapable unless God helps me. I mean, giving grace is a prerogative of God alone. It’s popular now to talk about how we need to give grace to others, but the way people are using the word—meaning forgiveness and kindness and love—diminishes...Joy in Darkness
I’ve been thinking a lot about wickedness lately. (Not a likely topic, I know, for a website called “Here’s the Joy.”) Deep, horrific, shocking wickedness. It isn’t pleasant to think about, it causes me to lose sleep, but the time has come. People are making...Are All Sins Really Equal?
No, all sins are not equal. Corollary: Some sins are worse than others. Our entire justice system is built on this concept. But Christians have been conditioned to think that it’s false. Jesus said lusting was heart adultery. So then, many extrapolate, it must be that...“If You Died Tonight, What Would You Say to God to Get Him to Let You Into His Heaven?”
I had opened the front door to find two women standing there. I think they may have introduced themselves, and possibly told what church they represented. But then one of them said this line. This memorized line. My first thought? What a confrontational thing to say!...Chief of Hypocrites
I surely can’t be the only one who skips over some Scriptures a hundred times, a thousand times, maybe, and then suddenly one day, as I’m asking the Lord to open the Scriptures to me, He opens some obscure little phrase in a way I never expected. (That’s what makes...
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.
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