by Rebecca Davis | Nov 18, 2012 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 1, 2012 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 12, 2012 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 29, 2012 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures
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!...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 25, 2012 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2012 | challenging the status quo
Do you think your verbal expressions are justified? You rather enjoy the inadvertent blush of some less-trendy peers or the blanch of the older generation? And of course you have strong feelings, so you need strong expressions to express them. And this is part of our...