by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2022 | churches, Emotional Literacy, love
Wisdom from Dr. Henry Cloud: “Denying our sinfulness is natural. Who wants to claim something that makes us uncomfortable? It’s not easy to own. But what about negative feelings that are not sinful — the ones that result merely from living in a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | churches
Listening to a message on the Thyatira church from Revelation….among whom the spirit of Jezebel moved freely, corrupting the people there with adulterous and idolatrous false teaching …The people there either lacked conscience or courage…..They...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 13, 2022 | children's ministry, churches, spiritual battle
Some people’s senses are seriously offended by militaristic imagery (spiritually speaking) in religion. “Onward, Christian Soldiers”, spiritual “battle”, the whole armor of God”, fighting an “enemy”, etc. They believe it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2022 | churches
The problem with the church, any church, is not the church. It’s the expectations that people bring to the church…. In other words, the ecclesiology of individuals, or what they believe about the church. I worked through my personal ecclesiology in the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 5, 2021 | change, churches
The problem with the church, any church, is not the church. It’s the expectations that people bring to the church…. In other words , the ecclesiology of individuals, or what they believe about the church. I worked through my personal ecclesiology in the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 3, 2021 | churches
In the late 90’s I was working on a project with a group of Christian women. Some personal issues arose in the group (not involving me at all) and I became disillusioned with the way I saw them handle it within the group. I was talking to an older, wiser,...
