by Rebecca Davis | Dec 25, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
a guest post by Tim Davis Moses Guiltersleeve was dead. There was no doubt about that. How then did his deep, condemning voice still speak from the stone-carved doorknocker? “Ebenezer Skewed, Ebenezer Skewed! In death I am your partner!” Eben bowed his head in shame....
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 | Dec 19, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone
It’s the season of Advent, and I’m enjoying wonderful songs about the birth of our Savior; this season it’s ones like Lauren Daigle’s “The Light of the World” and Francesca Battistelli’s “You’re Here.” These songs increase my deep joy and gratitude for our Lord Jesus...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 4, 2017 | challenging the status quo, sanctification by faith alone
Or running away into the mountains . . . or going over a wall in a basket . . . or hiding on a roof . . . There is still suffering in the loss of a relationship and recovery from a betrayal, suffering that will remind us to turn our eyes to Jesus Christ for our hope...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 30, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Note: The “Biblical counseling” being critiqued here is actually nouthetic/admonishing counseling. There are many people who counsel Biblically who do not counsel this way. This is the third and final installment in a series of articles of commentary on...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 29, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Yesterday I applied Caroline Newheiser’s lecture “Living with an Angry Husband” (link) to the wife of Devin Patrick Kelley, the man who shot and killed 26 people in a Texas church on November 5, 2017. It is a lecture that sounds a very uncertain call to the...