by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 19, 2016 | Calling, Career, change, churches, conflict, culture, decisions, desiring God, Disciples, evangelism, Ministry, missions, Uncategorized
Many times when women come into our program and are required to attend church, they are squeamish. One had an absolutely horrible panic attack the first time she walked in with me, she said she was afraid she’d be struck dead by God for daring to set foot in a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 6, 2010 | consolation, decisions, Holy Spirit
“The consolation of the Holy Spirit” is a phrase I have heard from time to time and I had imagined that it as the comfort of the Holy Spirit. But today I read a brief essay by Ruth Haley Barton who has written about solitude, silence, and the rhythms of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2009 | decisions, discipleship training
I recall hearing that we should not place a comma where God has put a period. I think the reverse is probably equally true: do not place a period where God has put a comma. I was talking to a friend this week who commented that he’d been praying for God’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 12, 2009 | decisions, Ministry, worship
Because of my staff job at a church, there are some Sundays that I don’t even get into the sanctuary for worship…..instead I am teaching, counseling, handling an emergency, or looking for a curriculum resource for a teacher or home group leader. Today was...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 28, 2008 | decisions
For two and a half years I’ve been involved in taking one online class per semester from Columbia College’s eChristianEducation program in pursuit of certification as a Christian educator with the United Methodist Church. I am half way through the final...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 7, 2007 | communion, decisions
“Dying moments, new beginnings” is a phrase that describes a communion celebration that many of us associated with The Walk to Emmaus will recognize. It defines what we, in our Christian lives, do again and again as we experience the regenerative work of...
