by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 10, 2025 | conflict, counseling, discipleship training, reconciliation, redemption, sanctification, self examination, self worth, significance
In classes teaching women about identity, we reference two driving needs of humans, security and significance. Robert McGee’s book, Search for Significance, is helpful as part of this effort. Security is rooted in the need to feel loved and accepted unconditionally....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 19, 2025 | discipleship training, love
Jesus ministered to all – sinner and saved alike- everywhere he went. He fellowshipped with the disciples who were with him most of the time for 3 years. But he enjoyed close community with Peter, James and John They went places others didn’t and he showed...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 4, 2025 | discipleship training, miracles, missions
Without a doubt, this is the best description of discipleship I’ve ever heard! “John wants those who have believed in Jesus to understand the new truth about themselves: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 17, 2024 | desiring God, discipleship training
“….to know this LOVE THAT SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE —that you may be FILLED TO THE MEASURE OF ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD ! “. Ephesians 3:19 I have observed recently a distinction between one who comes at discipleship with an inquiring mind, desiring simply...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 23, 2023 | counseling, discipleship training
At one point a young husband reported that his wife, who was seeing a Christian counselor at the time, was benefitting from what had become more of a discipleship relationship than a therapeutic counseling relationship. I realized that my years in relationship with a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 6, 2023 | discipleship training, Teaching, Twelve Steps, witness
I am discipling a middle-age woman with no childhood experience of religious practice but a growing realization that the only way she is going to gain power over her addiction of 25+ years is through Christ. (She has been in 7 recovery programs and multiple detoxes in...
