by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 20, 2026 | God's will, knowing, mercy, reconciliation, redemption, sanctification
I see posts expressing mixed emotions of angst and eagerness over what some view as Revelation’s end-time seeming to be playing out in the world today. I just am not an apocalypse speculator, neither afraid, nor eager. I just take each day as it comes, trusting God...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 20, 2025 | Assurance of faith, Assurance of salvation, Teaching, witness
Assurance…. A hallmark doctrine of Methodism….. yet do we really “get it?” Assurance is not “all about the heart”….. it’s only about the heart after one’s heart has been circumcised and healed by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit operating by invitation to Jesus...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 23, 2025 | Assurance of salvation, Calvinism, Grace
Part of text conversations I had with a friend Me: (Sharing a reflection from another friend today.) “If your sins hang over your head, this message is for you. Micah 7:18-19, emphasizes God‘s complete and total forgiveness. It reads, “Who is a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 13, 2024 | sanctification
Francis de Sales”Purging the soul is a lifetime effort. There is no reason to be upset by our imperfections, for perfection is nothing more than fighting against them. How can we resist them unless we see them? How can we overcome them unless we face...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 17, 2023 | Beatitudes, Uncategorized
God spoke words of comfort and hope to me over 20 years ago through the Beatitudes of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. In them He revealed a rich and beautiful path for moving from my brokenness (“poverty of spirit” Matt. 5:3) and reliance on things of...
