by Rebecca Davis | Mar 27, 2012 | news and musings, our New Covenant identity
I take off my glasses to peer at my tiny notes in the wide margins of my ancient Bible. I type them into the computer and add new notes from what the Lord is currently teaching me about the passage. I love being able to use online commentaries and lexicons. So the...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 28, 2012 | news and musings
My mother-in-law passed away six years ago this week. She died in her bed here in this house where we live now. Almost five years earlier my in-laws had moved in with us so we could help with her care in her declining years, as she disappeared in the gray cloud of...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 14, 2012 | news and musings, seeking Jesus
I’m studying Philippians . . . I memorized it when I was in college. I’ve taught Bible studies on it. I studied it in-depth nine years ago. And I pull the bread out of the fridge and sniff it, surreptitiously checking for little white spots. Why did I...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 7, 2011 | news and musings
This one is an important book to me because I contributed a chapter for it! Over forty people, from famous ones to ordinary ones like me, told how the Word of God has been used in their lives. I posted my chapter on my blog a while back: “The Magnifying Glass of...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 30, 2011 | news and musings, seeking Jesus
This summer my two teenagers and I had the privilege of spending some evenings listening together to Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place (mending clothes, brushing the dog’s matted fur as we listened) and then watching the video. It had been maybe a few...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 24, 2011 | news and musings
In our homeschool Bible teaching with Joshua, we’re emphasizing three levels of learning the Bible: Level One: Know those Bible stories. Know them in context. Sometimes in detail. (In our daughter Christiana’s college Bible class, she was surprised at how...