What Hypocrisy Is and What It Isn’t and Why That’s Important: A Lesson From Tullian Tchividjian
Hypocrisy. Presenting oneself one way (perceived as good) in public while actively living a different way (definitely bad) in private. Sort of like this: And of course the problem of hypocrisy is made far worse if the hypocrite isn’t just presenting himself as...Do You See How Significant This Is?
Safe Harbor is a local nonprofit here in the upstate of South Carolina, dedicated to helping victims of domestic abuse in a variety of ways. Until recently, those “ways” didn’t include a whole lot of interaction with evangelical and fundamentalist churches. Until...About this Blog
I started Here’s the Joy in 2009, after I had undergone a period of spiritual darkness and then a great uplifting of soul. For the previous several years, the Word of God had been opening to me in a way I hadn’t seen it in my 35 years of Bible study, and I...The “Gall of Bitterness” in Acts — It Isn’t Resentment
In this series, I’m addressing the concept of bitterness in the Bible, how it is used to shame and blame victims of abuse who are seeking help from their churches. The first post in this series addressed the “root of bitterness” in Hebrews,...
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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