by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 16, 2022 | sanctification
I have neither the sovereignty nor the goodness of God. I am not Jesus. I do not always respond like Jesus. When I don’t act in ways that please God I seek God’s forgiveness. I am simply me. And, believe it or not, God loves and accepts and even delights...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | holiness, sanctification
In a recent gathering in which a group of women considered a Scripture reading, we were asked to listen for the Lord bringing a particular word to our attention. For me, in the passage from Ephesians 3, what struck me was knowing “Christ is in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 28, 2022 | Bible Study, correction, emotions, sanctification
Two Sisters’ Responses and Transformations (Luke 10:32-48, John 12:2-3) Watching Mary: When awareness gives rise to attentiveness, it fosters attunement, rooting a deep attachment, yielding flowering affection breeding mutual abiding amid Holy Spirit aroma and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 20, 2022 | sanctification, theology
Assurance…. A hallmark doctrine of Methodism….. yet do we really “get it?” It is not “all about the heart”….. it’s only about the heart after it’s been circumcised and healed by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit operating by invitation to Jesus to take control...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 14, 2022 | 1 John 2:12-14, sanctification
Some individuals who know a level of spiritual maturity and dependence upon God that mark their walk as what the ancient church called The Unitive Way…….. following the childhood and youth “spiritual growth stages” of The Purgative Way and The Illuminative Way. The...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2022 | sanctification, scripture
Joni Eareckson Tada writes in her online devotional from 8/18/2014: Experiencing Christ “I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in...
