by Rebecca Davis | Apr 26, 2013 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
A friend brought to my attention a very legalistic article, Why Should Christians Attend Church? by Dale Robbins. Each statement is flawed, and on that friend’s blog I answered each one point by point. Now I’m reposting here. (1) Is church attendance an...
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 27, 2013 | news and musings, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus
Margaret Powers wrote a poem. It was about a man, but when I remembered it, I saw a woman. She was walking with God, so there were two sets of footprints. But sometimes there was just one, and she didn’t know why. She found out that they were when the Lord had...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 13, 2013 | news and musings, sanctification by faith alone
When a theme is trendy, I tend to avoid it. For good or ill, my gut reaction is if everybody’s doing it, to back off. Shucks, I might not have even followed Jesus when He was on earth, because of all those crowds. That’s why it took me about eight years to...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 9, 2012 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
Jesus cried out, “Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” A couple of years ago I posted on Facebook a question about the Greek word translated “repentance.” (It’s metanoia and its variants.) Yes, I admit, it took me a long time to get back to all the links and...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 18, 2012 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
I can’t. I don’t mean I’m incapable unless God helps me. I mean, giving grace is a prerogative of God alone. It’s popular now to talk about how we need to give grace to others, but the way people are using the word—meaning forgiveness and kindness and love—diminishes...