Have You Been Philippians 4:8’d?
It’s actually a beautiful verse. But sometimes it’s used as a cudgel. After I had heard two different people refer to this Bible verse as a verb (as a cudgel that had been used against them), I knew it was time to write about it. Here it is: Beautiful verse, right? A...“Why Are You So Fearful? How Is it That You Have No Faith?”
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...“It’s Not About You”
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...“Better Than I Deserve”
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...Will God Send Leanness to Your Soul?
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...
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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