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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 26, 2023 | Grace, Holy Spirit, sanctification
Have you observed situations in which “grace upon grace” preached and given led to indulgence and unrepentant excuse-making …..? Worth thinking about. “Grace doesn’t free us to sin. Grace makes us despise our sin. Grace frees us to obey, and, when we...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 26, 2023 | sanctification, theology
I have listened again and again to several writers’ reiterate multiple repetitions of the concept of the church only being or becoming the church (again) to the extent it is a house of prayer (again.) I had taken a day off to be at home to read, pray, and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 5, 2023 | Cultural Issues, folk religion, self-awareness
I had previously explored the cultural deception revealed through common use of language that would have one think of herself as primarily identifying with the physical self in the physical realm Not So Little Things…. and the need to think biblically instead of...
