by Rebecca Davis | Jan 7, 2015 | sanctification by faith alone
“I want more fruit, Lord. I want much fruit.” My prayer ran more or less along the lines of that vague reference to John 15. It was summer, and my parents’ blueberry bushes groaned with fruit. I was jealous. In the Love of Christ, my roots ran as...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 7, 2014 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
How was it that I had begun to take certain wrongdoing so lightly? How was it that I could justify theft? I was a graduate assistant at Bob Jones University. That meant while I was taking my grad classes, I was also working thirty hours a week at Bob Jones University...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 13, 2014 | news and musings, our New Covenant identity
It seemed like a normal day. I was going about my ordinary household tasks, for the most part on automatic. But during the course of the day I became aware of where my heart was going. I realized I was continuing to be bombarded by temptations in my thoughts, coyly...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 18, 2012 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
I can’t. I don’t mean I’m incapable unless God helps me. I mean, giving grace is a prerogative of God alone. It’s popular now to talk about how we need to give grace to others, but the way people are using the word—meaning forgiveness and kindness and love—diminishes...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 25, 2012 | challenging the status quo, news and musings
I surely can’t be the only one who skips over some Scriptures a hundred times, a thousand times, maybe, and then suddenly one day, as I’m asking the Lord to open the Scriptures to me, He opens some obscure little phrase in a way I never expected. (That’s what makes...