by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 14, 2022 | sanctification
“Behold!” With each step of Jesus’ life and ministry described in scripture we are given revelations of the truth of who he is through the eyes of first one person after another – Mary and Joseph, shepherds and Magi, Simeon and Anna, John the Baptist, satan (in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 28, 2022 | Grace, sanctification
Justification is a solitary covenant with God. He extends grace to us e RN when we are still in our sin. We repent and receive it by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Sanctification is a communal process of shared covenant to encourage and live out the “one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | Holy Spirit, sanctification
In writing about spiritual formation under the authority of the Hily Spirit, JD Walt, author of the Seedbed Daily text wrote: “There is a missing middle movement here. It is the Holy Spirit’s work of actuation. This will require the development of the most...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 22, 2022 | marriage, sanctification
2 Corinthians 13:5 (NIV) Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? I am struggling tonight…. not in the same way as some have...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2022 | sanctification
(first written 7/18:2017) Love is not about each (or either) partner having a need for affirmation fulfilled by the other. It is about each partner being willing to sacrifice one’s own needs/desires for the sake of God’s BEST in the well being of the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 26, 2022 | sanctification, The Church, theology, Trust, Truth
I have an ongoing project on Christian growth that examines parallels between our growth with what Luke 2:52 says about Jesus’ growth…..one of the pitfalls of discipling others and evangelism as “church” Christians is that people expect us to...