by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 28, 2017 | Faith, social gospel, theology, Wesley's Quadrilateral, work, Worldview
I had written on about my own evolving personal “Theology of Works” in another post in response to the NYTimes’ article on Bart Campolo’s loss of faith and establishment of what some have called a “church of atheism”. Today I continue those thoughts: Someone...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 28, 2017 | Faith, True Religion, work, Worldview
From the Facebook page of Cathy Byrd on 1/3/17, commenting on a news article about Bart Campolo’s abdication from Christianity and his new “Church of Atheism”……exalting friendship, community, and being and doing good: Tony Campolo’s son, Bart, has eschewed...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 9, 2016 | Faith
James MacDonald’s message on 8/2/16 at Walk in the Word” How to live by Faith”, was very apropos, given the Olympics in Rio: Nahum 1:7 The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him. It was such a simple...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 3, 2016 | Faith, Gratitude
Christie Purifoy (in Roots and Sky) writes: “I have always imagined gratitude as a kind of discipline. It is a practice. A choice. I still think this is true. However, I begin to glimpse a long-buried and misguided assumption. I have believed that the practice...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2015 | Faith, family
This Advent season has had me reflecting on the concept of “family” and “home”, both on behalf of the Titus 2 women and for myself. I was reading a review of a book that stated, “The author of Keeping the Feast connects the metaphor of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 29, 2015 | evangelism, Faith, growth, Ministry, seasons, spiritual growth
One of the classes that our Titus 2 students take is Robert McGee’s “Search for Significance”. Sometimes one only sees the purpose, impact, and value of an experience, a season of life, or of life itself from the perspective of the finish line....