In Which I Have a Small Argument With a Puritan About Suffering
Recently someone asked me to comment on Facebook on a quotation from a Puritan. I told her I found the quotation troubling enough to make a blog post out of it. Here, finally, is the promised post. My friend said, “When I read this quote, I thought it was true and...“Jesus as Intercessor”: Barely Restraining God’s Wrath?
That was the feeling I got all through the years when preachers would explain that term “intercessor,” from Hebrews 7:25. . . . he [Jesus] is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them....Mr. Charming and Miss Target (a Guest Post at A Cry for Justice)
This is one I submitted to ACFJ months ago. To my surprise it popped up this morning! *** Mr. Charming and Miss Target are sitting together on the grass looking out at the starlit sky. Miss Target is a new Christian and Mr. Charming is an old hand at religion, so...What If You Married a Nazi?
Back in the days when I taught math, I often helped my students with a complicated problem by presenting them with a more obvious problem that was similar. Solving the more obvious problem would usually give them the tools they needed to figure out the more...“You Just Need to Be Content”: A Response to Desiring God
Recently Desiring God published an article telling us that discontent is Satan’s trap against every woman (link). In the style of Screwtape Letters, author Rebekah Wilson Merkle offers “advice” from one demon to another. Here is a...
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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