by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 7, 2023 | change, culture
This speaker, Rosaria Butterfield, refers to her gradual dissolution into the LGBTQ culture ( after being raised in a Catholic tradition) through female social friendships (where she felt safe, connected, shared common justice interests, and felt understood) before...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2023 | understand, Wisdom
Philippians 4:7 (The Message): “It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life!” One of the ways that you know Jesus is at the center of your life is you worry less. Worry is a sign that something has replaced him...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 23, 2023 | Temptation
One teaching in the Word I’ve used for years is focused on rebellion and recovery and the causes and cure. We use a “15-minute Bible study” on the topic that was first published in In Touch magazine by Dr. Charles Stanley. The causes of rebellion he...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 18, 2022 | judging, spiritual discipline
“Sin remains sin, no matter how emotive or empathetic we might be towards the sinner. It does not matter if the sinner is ourselves, our nearest and dearest, friends, or strangers. All sin is worthy of death, and that must be our response to it. We have no right...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 4, 2022 | Truth, understand, Wisdom
Wisdom shared with me years ago said, ” We give as much of ourself as we can know to as much of God as we can understand.” It challenged me to engage in an inner journey of self discovery and a deep and broad and high and far-ranging search to know God...