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...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 23, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
It’s one thing to hear or read Berg’s teachings through the ears of one who has sinned—for example, one who has traumatized another. It’s quite a different thing to listen or read through the ears of one who has been sinned against, that is, the oppressed. ***...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 17, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Diane Langberg, preeminent Christian psychologist, counselor, and writer, has said many times, “Trauma is the mission field of the 21st century.” I’d change it slightly to say traumatized people are the mission field of the 21st century (since you can’t give the...