by Rebecca Davis | Sep 14, 2018 | challenging the status quo, seeking Jesus
John MacArthur recently spoke against social justice as one of the most dangerous current threats to the gospel. There have been three sermons as well as some blog posts, but the quotations in this post here are all taken from sermon #3, which is here. In my previous...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 12, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
John MacArthur, president of The Master’s University, founder of Grace to You, and respected speaker and author of many books, has made some strong statement against social justice in the Christian world. You can listen to and read a transcript of his sermons here and...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 10, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, seeking Jesus
Sometimes I talk with people who want healing and help from the Lord but are hesitant to “dig up the past” or who have counselors who don’t want them to “dig up the past.” For a while now, maybe over a year, I’ve been mulling over that pejorative expression. “Digging...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 3, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Last fall “Jane Doe” told her story of rape and its coverup at John MacArthur’s school The Master’s University. I wrote a commentary that referenced it here. At the beginning of this school year, John MacArthur made reference to this story in his opening remarks. You...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 27, 2018 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. In Quieting a Noisy Soul, author Jim Berg declares that the cause of the noisy soul is your sin: your unbelief, your discontent, and your guilty conscience (and as it turns out, your pride and your stubbornness). Throughout his...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 25, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
Jim Berg claims that this nouthetic counseling program Quieting a Noisy Soul presents the solutions to anxiety, despair, obsessive compulsive behavior, panic attacks, anorexia, bulimia, and other problems. Part 1 of this series covered the Problem (the noisy soul) and...