The Other Kind of Hypocrisy (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick)
A young friend experienced extreme bullying at her Christian school. I hadn’t really understood modern-day bullying, until she explained it to me. (She told me it was like the infamous Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.) One of the most important things this young...The Defiled Conscience: Should We Lovingly Help or Sharply Rebuke?
“And what we don’t want to do is say everybody binds everyone by their conscience with things that the Scripture doesn’t bind us by, right? Usually everybody’s bound by the preacher’s conscience. I don’t want to bind you by my conscience; I want the Holy Spirit...In the Messy Middle of the Story: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Middle
At the beginning of the book of Ruth, Naomi was bitter. No doubt about it. She said she was bitter. She changed her name to “Bitter.” (That’s what “Mara” means.) Preachers and writers often point to her as an example of sinful bitterness....Author of the Untwisting Scriptures series
Have you found that you can’t read the Bible without being sent back into a painful place? Have the Scriptures been twisted to keep you in bondage? The real Jesus wants to set you free. If you’re a victim or survivor of spiritual abuse, the Untwisting Scriptures...
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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