by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
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...
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 | Jan 28, 2019 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity
It was some months ago now that I added to my list of things to write about a lecture from Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Convention’s Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. Here is the link to the one-minute video and below is the transcript: What’s really...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 27, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
A friend described to me how her church did marriage counseling: the married couple had been told to come up with a list of “evidences of grace” that they saw in each other’s lives. We were to say them out loud in front of each other and the elders meeting with us....
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 27, 2018 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. In Quieting a Noisy Soul, author Jim Berg declares that the cause of the noisy soul is your sin: your unbelief, your discontent, and your guilty conscience (and as it turns out, your pride and your stubbornness). Throughout his...