by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 21, 2017 | Biblical Counseling, boundaries, marriage, spiritual life
CBB. 4/21/17 As I talk with a number of female friends, students, those with whom I journey in spiritual education or spiritual counseling, etc. this issue of appropriately biblical marriage dynamics comes up again and again. As 45 years of marriage will attest,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2014 | 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, 1 Corinthians 7: 3-11, Ephesians 5:21-33, marriage, Proverbs 31, Titus 2:3-5
Recently, I found myself challenged by listening to a divorced and remarried lay man teaching women (unrelated to him), saying: “Men were created by God to be in control; women were created to nurture; God’s curse on women at the Fall is that they want to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 14, 2009 | discipleship training, Genesis 2:18, marriage, recovery
A woman, without her man, is nothing.A woman: without her, man is nothing.In reading a book, Flawed Families of the Bible: How God’s Grace Works Through Imperfect Relationships (David and Diana Garland, 2007, Brazos Press), I came across these two statements at...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 23, 2007 | cardinals, marriage, symbols
From a journal entry 12/27/2001:It’s quite nippy today. I’ve put out birdseed and there’s a lot of squawking and chirpping and coming and going. I had fretted over the absence of birds, especially cardinals recently, thinking the cats might have...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 3, 2007 | Idolatry, marriage, self examination
“Idolatry is the universal human tendency to value something or someone in a way that hinders the love and trust we owe to God. It is an act of theft from God whereby we use some part of creation in a way that steals from honor due to God. Idolatry conflicts...
