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 | May 18, 2024 | Assurance of faith, Assurance of salvation, desiring God, Holy Spirit
Reflection for tomorrow, Pentecost Sunday….. “The consolation of the Holy Spirit” is a phrase I have heard from time to time and I had imagined that it is the comfort of the Holy Spirit. But I read a brief essay by Ruth Haley Barton who has written about...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 12, 2015 | Assurance of salvation, Scripture Studies
Thursday afternoon I dozed off for a few minutes while waiting for a lady at an office this afternoon. I had one of those split second kind of dreams….more just a single “snapshot photo” type dream….it was a goat whose legs were being bound...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 4, 2015 | Assurance of salvation, spiritual life
Revelation 2:17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who...
