by Rebecca Davis | Jan 30, 2023 | challenging the status quo, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
This is an updated version of a blog post I wrote for a domestic abuse shelter a while back. ***** A Christian church functions somewhere on a continuum from healthy to cult-like. A healthy church is one in which all members, including leaders, love and help each...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 12, 2023
Untwisting Scriptures — Book One Book 1 Rights, Bitterness, and Taking Up Offenses “You have to yield your rights.” “You’re just so bitter.” “It’s a sin to take up offenses for others.” This book refutes teachings from teachers such as Bill Gothard, Bryan Lorritts,...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 1, 2022 | news and musings, untwisting Scriptures
I’ve had a few epiphanies in my lifetime, and all of them have been important. But this one, this is the biggie. It happened in November of 2004, eighteen years ago this month. I was scrubbing the kitchen floor. While I scrubbed, I listened to some Bible teaching on...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2022 | birthday reflections
I’m reflecting on a few verses in Titus 2. When I was young, in my 30s, I wanted so much to one day be an older woman teaching the younger. But life can end up looking different from what we expected when we were younger, you know what I mean? And it seems in...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 18, 2022 | guest post, news and musings
Abba Recently our one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, Phoebe, blessed me with an “Abba moment.” But it can’t be fully appreciated without some backstory. She’s been a shy one—especially toward big men with beards. I’m average size, and I...