The Other Kind of Hypocrisy (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick)
A young friend experienced extreme bullying at her Christian school. I hadn’t really understood modern-day bullying, until she explained it to me. (She told me it was like the infamous Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.) One of the most important things this young...Thoughts for the Hopeless from Isaiah 40
I’ve mentioned before the importance of learning to pray, before reading the Scriptures, to ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten the eyes and open the understanding to receive what He wants to give. This always makes a difference as I read and meditate. Here’s a...“Conscience” in the Bible: Insight Into Abusers and Their Targets
Scout’s honor, I didn’t start out to make this a blog post about Mark Driscoll. I was thinking about how those with hardened/polluted/jettisoned/seared consciences take advantage of those with sensitive/weak consciences, and I wanted to study conscience in the Bible...4 Ways Teaching Christians to Embrace “I’m the Worst Sinner I Know” Is Harming the Church
Some background of the teaching When CJ Mahaney began proclaiming “I’m the worst sinner I know” somewhere around the late 1990s, it certainly wasn’t the first time this teaching had been promoted. But from what I could find, this was when it began to go mainstream....Power Over Porn
Not long ago I had the privilege of having a deep conversation with a young man who was attending an excellent local Bible school. What made this conversation unusual was that this young man began telling me about an addiction to pornography that had gripped him since...
I’m Rebecca Davis, a trauma-informed writer, book coach, speaker, compassionate witness, prayer minister, and lover of Jesus who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
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