by Rebecca Davis | Jul 8, 2019 | untwisting Scriptures
I have friends who are walking through hellish darkness in trying to recover and stay safe from evil perpetrated on them and their children that, when they entered their marriages, they had no inkling even existed. I have friends who are trying to stay safe from being...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 24, 2019 | For the Protectors, our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures
Quiz time. What’s wrong with that statement in the title? Answer . . . There’s no antecedent for the “it.” (As a writer, editor, and English teacher, I’m troubled by a missing antecedent because of the ambiguity it creates. And yes, that sentence was a little...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 10, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
If you’ve listened to Dave Ramsey at all, you’ve heard it as a response to “How are you?” If you listen to country gospel, you might have heard it as a song. If you’ve been looking, you’ve seen it in blog posts (and more blog posts) and maybe even on T shirts. If...
by Rebecca Davis | May 30, 2019 | our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures
Here’s something we taught our children from the time they were old enough to understand: Sometimes the worst punishment a person can get is what he wants. I remmeber how astonished our children were with that teaching. It took much discussion for them to even...
by Rebecca Davis | May 27, 2019 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures
It’s common for preachers and Christian writers to tell us, “When you listen to this sin being described, don’t think about anybody else; just think about yourself and search your own soul.” Many Christians, well-meaning and good-hearted, very much take that...
by Rebecca Davis | May 21, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
Yesterday I talked about 3 kinds of good fear, fear that isn’t sinful and is actually good and pleasing to God. Today . . . Three scenarios when fear is unnecessary and even harmful And sinful? Well maybe in some cases. (But then again in most of these cases,...