by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 4, 2023 | spiritual life
Our Almighty Heavenly Abba Father owns all the cattle on a thousand hills (and everything else). He tells us that the meek will inherit the Earth (Matthew 5:5). That means that when we are submitted to his will, listening and attentive, when we are teachable and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 25, 2023 | Methodism, spiritual life, The Church
Bill and I were young marrieds with a toddler and an infant. It was mid-1970s. We had made a commitment to join and attend a church, Whitfield United Methodist Church, in part because that was how we were raised. A Sunday School class for young marrieds was being led...
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. ...
