by Rebecca Davis | Jan 26, 2021 | news and musings, untwisting Scriptures
If you subscribe to my blog, then you got the advance notice that Book 2 of Untwisting Scriptures that were used to tie you up, gag you, and tangle your mind is coming out soon. That’s because I sent out an email to all my subscribers, asking for pre-readers for the...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 5, 2021 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
Part 1 in the Series: Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Nouthetic Counseling I have posted about “nouthetic counseling” (later rebranded to be called “Biblical counseling”) more than any other tagged topic on this blog. But this series will examine Jay Adams’...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 14, 2020 | sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
I’m grateful It’s the season of Advent. “The Coming.” I’m preparing for “the coming” of all four of our children, with their spouses, together for Christmas for the first time in 6 years. Maybe “the coming” of a new little niece, our second granddaughter,...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 10, 2020 | our New Covenant identity, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
A while back when I posted on Facebook a question about authority teachers, one person told me that John Bevere’s book Under Cover had taught “church authority” in such a way that that it had nearly destroyed her and her family. So I bought the book and started...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 22, 2020 | For the Protectors, seeking Jesus, survivor stories, untwisting Scriptures
I’m delighted to post this week from my friend Rochelle Sadie’s blog My Dear Sister. In spite of her blog’s name, please know that this post is not only for women but for men as well, anyone who has been harmed by a spiritually abusive system and made to feel “small.”...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 7, 2020 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
One time some friends and I were studying a book about the Christian life, and we came to a section about the way abusers think and act. I said, “Some of you may be able to think of someone you know who fits this description.” One woman replied that for this study she...