Is Church Attendance Pleasing to God?
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...What Does It Mean to Be Spiritually Dead and Alive?
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...The Thick Darkness Where God Was
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...The Prayer of Jabez, Revisited
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...What Does Real Repentance Look Like?
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...
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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