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 | Nov 5, 2025 | Bible Study, redemption, second thoughts
In the daily Wake Up Call devotional from Seedbed on Sunday, 11/2/25, JD Walt directed us to the story in Luke of Zaccheus. He stirred a bit of discussion in the readers’ Facebook discussion group by suggestions Zaccheus was not necessarily the low-life sinner tax...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 23, 2025 | Prayer, Purpose, redemption, social gospel, Spiritual abuse, spiritual battle, spiritual journey, Teaching, timing, witness, Worldview, woundedness, writing
“You were created to be a difference maker, making significant differences in the world. God is the source of your power, abilities, opportunities and even the desire to do good works. Philippians 2:13 states, “For It is God who works in you both to will...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 23, 2025 | redemption, sanctification, scripture, self-awareness, spiritual formation, spiritual growth, Uncategorized
“God will allow the layers you depended on to fall away, so that all that is left is pure trust; no props, no pretense. Whatever is a distraction He will remove. Connections that jeopardize your integrity, He will remove. He will cause a “divine stripping” to clear...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 19, 2024 | redemption, spiritual growth, understand
)CBByrd 3/19/2022). Even in the wilderness, darkness or midst of battle…… “It’s not a dead end if God took you there for a purpose.” Character in movie “Unconditional” If you find yourself in any such place, God’s redemptive power...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 18, 2023 | redemption, Suffering
3/18/2020……. Reflections I have had several women come into Titus 2 who have told me that the reason they got sober was because God told them, in no uncertain terms, at a critical point in their addiction that, if they continued, they would die. While it...
