by Rebecca Davis | Nov 28, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Note: I put the term “Biblical counseling” in quotation marks not because I believe it’s wrong to counsel with the Bible. (Just the opposite is true, in fact.) But rather, because a certain group of people (nouthetic/”admonishing”...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 20, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
When our daughter was a teenager, I remember her coming to Tim and me in tears over what some peers of hers were talking about. Turns out one of the peers had just informed another, when my daughter was part of the conversation, that a teenager they both knew was...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 15, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
My faithful readers have seen some of my blog posts about rights before, and know that two chapters of Untwisting Scriptures are devoted to understanding rights. I’m glad to say that author and speaker Leslie Vernick is giving an opportunity to interact on this...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 8, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
Next week I’ll be privileged to guest post again for Leslie Vernick at www.leslievernick.com, about how you actually do have rights and you shouldn’t surrender or yield them and it’s actually impossible to surrender many of them. That will be a brief outline of the...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 3, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Recently a friend wrote to me about a church in which the well-meaning elders choose to believe anyone who claims to be repentant, even those who have been living a double life (such as a well-respected church person who turns out to be a secret abuser or adulterer)....
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 22, 2017 | challenging the status quo, seeking Jesus
While others are spending October celebrating the Five Solas, I want to celebrate umbrellas. Actually, I want to celebrate getting out from under umbrellas. And for good measure, so the non-initiate can understand my Umbrella Parable, here’s the expanded version of...