by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2023 | righteousness, spiritual life, Ten Commandments, theology, Wisdom
Someone asked me a few years ago about a quote attributed to Jesus, wanting to know the precise source and wording used in Scripture. The caller had heard the phrase at a funeral and wanted to remember exactly what it was this deceased friend had been heard to say...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2023 | spiritual life, story
Master Artists exhibition at Laguna Beach Christian Retreat with Titus 2 friends: 2/21/2015 I took my book about the painting- “Forgiven” by Thomas Blackshear, that my daughter gave me for Mother’s Day in 1997 with me to an art show in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 19, 2023 | Grace, spiritual life
Not freedom FROM, but freedom TO exercise wisdom and godly choices. The higher responsibility to which grace calls the faithful is the Spirit of the Law, which is much higher than the Letter of the Law. This is what Christ means by saying He came to fulfill the Law,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 15, 2023 | spiritual life, theology, Tullian Tchividjian
From 1/15/2020 I have called our current circumstances “living among the death throes of the enemy who thrashes about like a snake whose head has been separated from the body…..” He’s dead…. just hasn’t realized it yet. ...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 5, 2023 | journaling, spiritual life
Jesus Christ chose to come to us to show us the depth and steadfastness of God’s love AND the demands of his righteous justice, while taking upon himself the price required by that justice upon his own body. I am without words to express my own gratitude and love for...
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...
