by Rebecca Davis | May 31, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, our New Covenant identity, Recommended, untwisting Scriptures
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...
by Rebecca Davis | May 22, 2017 | challenging the status quo, Recommended, untwisting Scriptures
I don’t know you, but I’d like to reply to the letter you wrote asking for counsel, which was published on this blog post, with a troubling reply. Here is your letter: Dear Pastor, You’ll never believe the terrible state of my marriage. I was raised in a...
by Rebecca Davis | May 16, 2017 | challenging the status quo, Recommended
“And what we don’t want to do is say everybody binds everyone by their conscience with things that the Scripture doesn’t bind us by, right? Usually everybody’s bound by the preacher’s conscience. I don’t want to bind you by my conscience; I want the Holy Spirit...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 20, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, Recommended, untwisting Scriptures
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...