by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2022 | Faith, Teaching
Wisdom from Dr. Henry Cloud on toxic people: “The Bible often warns us to avoid toxic people, or at least their toxic behavior. God wants us to be very careful to stay clear of people who can destroy the life that he desires to create for us. Listen to the way...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2022 | Faith
Follow along with me here….. John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 8:47. “He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 10, 2022 | Faith, love, righteousness
Someone posted a meme in social media about the mark of Christianity being the ability to love Judas as well as Jesus. I actually have considered that before. If satan had to ask to sift Peter, then he would have also had to ask permission of the sovereign God to sift...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 30, 2022 | Faith
Every single person has a “measure of faith”. Faith is a human capacity to believe in something, anything. It is the object of one’s faith, the thing(s) in which one believes that define and mold one’s faith. We are all “people of faith” in something. Some objects of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 20, 2022 | Faith, God's attributes
The observation below was from 2016….. many times since then the Spirit has moved greatly in my life, at Titus 2, at Lynn Haven UMC and big changes are on the horizon for The UMC and the global church. So many things have changed. Good things continue to be...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 30, 2022 | Faith, spiritual growth, theology
Some have mocked the distress and angst supposedly expressed by evangelicals over so many young people’s “deconstruction” of their faith and why it is essentially not a rejection of Jesus, but is rejection of institutionalism and politicalization of...