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 | Jul 20, 2012 | our New Covenant identity, seeking Jesus
Those Corinthians were recalcitrants. (That’s one of my current favorite words.) When Paul wrote 2 Corinthians, he was having trouble in pretty much every conceivable area of his life. The influential Jewish leaders, who were the self-professed enemies of...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 22, 2012 | seeking Jesus
In Philippians 3 Paul expressed his longing to know the treasure that was his Savior. . . . Few can draw a word picture like that master wordsmith, C.H. Spurgeon. This is only slightly adapted from a sermon of his, painting a word picture of what it means to desire to...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 15, 2012 | challenging the status quo, seeking Jesus
Maybe you remember the What Would Jesus Do phenomenon in the 1990s. The Christian culture of the U.S. was abuzz with the question in youth groups and Bible studies because an awful lot of people sincerely wanted to use it to help them live a more consistent Christian...
by Rebecca Davis | Feb 14, 2012 | news and musings, seeking Jesus
I’m studying Philippians . . . I memorized it when I was in college. I’ve taught Bible studies on it. I studied it in-depth nine years ago. And I pull the bread out of the fridge and sniff it, surreptitiously checking for little white spots. Why did I...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 30, 2011 | news and musings, seeking Jesus
This summer my two teenagers and I had the privilege of spending some evenings listening together to Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place (mending clothes, brushing the dog’s matted fur as we listened) and then watching the video. It had been maybe a few...