by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 7, 2023 | scripture, service
i went to see Angel Studio’s “His Only Son” movie this week. Now I need to go see it again. At one point as Abraham knelt in humility and heartbreak before the Angel of the Lord, the theophany of God, His hand reached out to him in what appeared to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 13, 2023 | Facing fears, spiritual battle, Worldview, worship
It seems that this is the second time in this Lent series that Dan Wilt, author of Jesus in the Wild, has referenced a personal experience of being on a high place, a tempting prominence where the view is breathtaking, and the heady (and frightening) feeling it can...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | Faith
The ISAAC PRINCIPLE revisited: Several years ago I read Carol Kent’s book, “When I Lay My Isaac Down.” From that and other things God was using in my life at the moment, I discovered what I have come to call The Isaac Principle: It is in the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2022 | Idolatry
“Boston pastor Adam Mabry’s book Stop Taking Sides reminded Christians to take elections seriously, but also “trust Jesus, receive peace, and refuse the anxiety that betrays an innate political idolatry.” I never thought about how “anxiety betrays an innate idolatry…....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 27, 2022 | The Church
At www.spiritandtruth.life Matt Reynolds’s diagnosis and prescription for the current state of the Church seems to sum up the same thing that the Lord has taught me and confirmed again and again through the last 32 years as a born-again evangelical believer....
