by Rebecca Davis | Apr 4, 2014 | news and musings
I recently had the privilege of doing a storytelling event for a children’s church group, from one of my books of true missionary stories. This story was first published in Peace Child by Don Richardson, and comprises two chapters in the book Witness Men: True...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 13, 2014 | news and musings, our New Covenant identity
It seemed like a normal day. I was going about my ordinary household tasks, for the most part on automatic. But during the course of the day I became aware of where my heart was going. I realized I was continuing to be bombarded by temptations in my thoughts, coyly...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 19, 2013 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, untwisting Scriptures
It is a shame to even mention what the disobedient do in secret. It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. It is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. The things that they do in secret are...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2013 | birthday reflections, news and musings
Four years ago on this day, September 5th, 2009, I wrote my first “Reflections” piece on my blog. I mentioned something about a bleak financial picture and downsizing. The fact of the matter was that that morning—the morning of my fifty-second birthday, we had told...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 29, 2013 | news and musings, seeking Jesus
It’s Passion Week, and I’ve been thinking about lions. Sometimes when I read the Bible I go on a bit of a rabbit trail. . . . (This time I think it was a lion trail.) Does that ever happen to you? And sometimes, when I do that, I gain a clearer picture of who Jesus...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 3, 2013 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, sanctification by faith alone
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. When a young friend of mine became discouraged about the smallness of her love for God, I asked her, “Before you were saved, how much did it bother you...