by Rebecca Davis | Dec 2, 2019 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
Deborah Brunt is an abuse survivor who blogs at Key Truths. ***** In the Deep South, you know you’re in trouble when someone says, “Bless your heart!” It means, by translation, “Wow! What a hopeless mess you’re in!” or, “Wow! What a hopeless fool you are!” or, “Wow,...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 26, 2019 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
This is a burden on my heart (that I pulled from yesterday’s post because it deserved its own) because I believe this understanding is crucial to becoming the people of God He has called us to be. I pray it will help someone the way similar teachings helped me...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 21, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, news and musings
It may feel like voyeurism, reading about it, if you don’t know any of these people. But as I’ve been saying for some time now, I can be pretty doggone certain that you do know or at least interact with a survivor of sex trafficking, even if you don’t think you do....
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 12, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, survivor stories
Erika Smith grew up in an abusive home in which the parents claimed Christianity. She is still a follower of Jesus in spite of the way she and her siblings were treated by her parents and the casual “forgive and forget” dismissal she has received from churches where...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 28, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, seeking Jesus
In 2008, the movement calling itself “Biblical patriarchy” was in its heyday. In 2008, the beautiful Botkin sisters, paragons of the visionary daughterhood espoused by “Biblical patriarchy,” were 20 and 22 years old. Three years earlier, at 17 and 19, they had...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 14, 2019 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
It’s supposed to be encouraging when we hear that God the Father sees His children through the filter of His Son Jesus Christ. I’ve seen Christians almost come to tears when they talk about how God the Father is wearing “blood-colored glasses” to look at us, seeing...