by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 13, 2022 | spiritual growth, spiritual life
I read a post about the UMC’s apparent loss of enthusiasm for evangelism evidenced by how many churches have had no professions of faith in any recent year and voicing the hope that new expressions of Methodism would renew the practice of evangelism and bring...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 27, 2022 | community, religious movements, spiritual growth
9/27/21: This is my tribe….. I cannot recount all the incredible ways in which I’ve seen God move in the last year in Spirit-abiding, in comfort-giving, in provision-making, in protection-covering, in promise-keeping, in vision-giving, in faith-building, in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 30, 2022 | Faith, spiritual growth, theology
Some have mocked the distress and angst supposedly expressed by evangelicals over so many young people’s “deconstruction” of their faith and why it is essentially not a rejection of Jesus, but is rejection of institutionalism and politicalization of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 9, 2022 | spiritual growth, writing
Building Positive self- identity and resilience are skills we work on ….. From 2018: A conversation on resilience by Sharyl Sandberg and Adam Grant: Adam: There’s research suggesting that journaling can be really helpful in this process (of building self...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 15, 2022 | change, spiritual growth
These are photos of the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly that hang in my office and that I use with our new students, explaining the process of transformation this way: 1.) egg- like the tiniest embryo of a human, this little egg contains all that it will need to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 2, 2022 | spiritual growth
In our ministry we relate the spiritual growth of a person to that of a butterfly’s life cycle: first is the initial stage-the egg. It contains all the potential that will be needed to become what God intended. As it becomes an immature caterpillar it eats, grows and...
