by Rebecca Davis | Sep 25, 2018 | our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus
Remember the great compassion our Lord Jesus showed to all who came to Him in faith? How deeply He loved them and how tenderly He treated them. If Jesus came to you—you who have believed on Him but are working as if a slavedriver were beating your...
by Rebecca Davis | Aug 10, 2018 | our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
What did God even mean when He said He had “led captivity captive”? This is a truth from Psalm 68, which Paul reiterated in Ephesians 4. Our Lord Jesus Christ, when he defeated the enemy, took into exile the very concept of exile. Here’s the joy for...
by Rebecca Davis | Jul 27, 2018 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. In Quieting a Noisy Soul, author Jim Berg declares that the cause of the noisy soul is your sin: your unbelief, your discontent, and your guilty conscience (and as it turns out, your pride and your stubbornness). Throughout his...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 7, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, sanctification by faith alone
It was a few weeks ago now that TGC posted the article “The Most Important Time to Go to Church.” The most important time to go to church, according to the TGC author, is when you don’t want to, because “covenant commitments” are made for the hard times, not the good...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 30, 2018 | our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
In Friday’s post, “When is it wrong to be a living sacrifice?” about Romans 12:1, which refers to our being “holy” as living sacrifices, I commented that it seems that holiness is rarely defined. Well, here is a brief definition, one that...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 30, 2018 | sanctification by faith alone, seeking Jesus
It’s Passion Week, and I’ve been thinking about lions. Sometimes when I read the Bible I go on a bit of a rabbit trail. . . . (This time I think it was a lion trail.) Does that ever happen to you? And sometimes, when I do that, I gain a deeper...