by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 21, 2025 | communication, Disciples, reading, scripture, theology, timing, witness
On Saturday I had a text conversation with a friend about the feelings of such a dark Sabbath Saturday after the reminders of Jesus’ pain and suffering of Good Friday that the disciples might have been experiencing all those years ago on the day after Christ’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 17, 2024 | scripture, Truth
Some say seeing is believing. Christ says believing is seeing. John 11:40: “Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” What a difference a simple paradigm shift can make! One either believes and follows Christ or...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 7, 2023 | scripture, service
i went to see Angel Studio’s “His Only Son” movie this week. Now I need to go see it again. At one point as Abraham knelt in humility and heartbreak before the Angel of the Lord, the theophany of God, His hand reached out to him in what appeared to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2023 | religious movements, scripture, trees, Uncategorized
I heard a sermon this week on the parable of the unfruitful fig tree. But for all my effort I cannot remember where or from whom I heard it. The message focused on the gardener’s appeal to the master who had told the gardener to cut it down for having borne...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2023 | scripture, spiritual life
JD Walt pre-empted me today with the Wake Up Call from seedbed.com writing on a “word” for the year. I had been occupied with personal ministry, church, and family activities the last two weeks and had not been prodded to think of a “word for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 28, 2022 | redemption, scripture, spiritual life, witness
I love how God gradually reveals things about oneself, little tidbits of information and insights gleaned here and there over years, then one day just hits you with it: “This is you!” This morning I was meditating on His Word. Suddenly in my mind’s...
