by Rebecca Davis | Jun 17, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Umm . . . yes, he really did call it a sin, an “enticing sin,” in fact. That is, Joe Rigney, the Desiring God author, truly did say that empathy is bad and even a trick of the devil. And the majority of the commenters on the Facebook post of the article...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 20, 2017 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
Yesterday when I fell down the black hole of Twitter, I ended up gasping for air with a Desiring God blog post. Husbands, Get Her Ready for Jesus (link) astonished me with its unbiblical focus on husband-as-sanctifier. It began with Ephesians 5:25-26 . . . Husbands,...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 22, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
A couple of weeks ago someone forwarded to me a post from Desiring God that hit me like a punch in the stomach. In an article called “Kicked Out of Church: How God Brought Me Home” (link), author Scarlett Clay begins her story right after her church had excommunicated...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 23, 2016 | news and musings
I haven’t written anything for my Here’s the Joy devotional blog for over six months. But I really have been doing a lot of writing. In December I wrote a blog post for the Desiring God website. In the spring I wrote and presented a three-hour presentation on...