by Rebecca Davis | Feb 17, 2015 | news and musings, seeking Jesus
As far as I can see, there are two kinds of help. One is assistance. One is deliverance. When you call out for help with a task that needs three hands, you already have two of the hands you need, so you’re asking for assistance. But when you call out for help...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 7, 2014 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
How was it that I had begun to take certain wrongdoing so lightly? How was it that I could justify theft? I was a graduate assistant at Bob Jones University. That meant while I was taking my grad classes, I was also working thirty hours a week at Bob Jones University...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 25, 2014 | news and musings
I first posted this piece in February of 2010. Update on it below! ****** I’ve been reading The Heavenly Man to my two teenagers at lunchtime. This book, which deeply influenced me three years ago, is about the great revival that took place in China in the 1970s...
by Rebecca Davis | May 25, 2014 | news and musings
It’s been two years (only two years!) since the Lord began regularly bringing sexual abuse survivors into my life, and my heart hurts. I was scrolling back through some of my correspondence to retrieve some information, and I came across a letter I wrote to a...
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...