by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 4, 2022 | Suffering
Joni Eareckson Tada makes a point here about the role that suffering can play in our lives. A pastor friend had done his doctoral paper on how suffering brings people to God. While I don’t believe God BRINGS the suffering, I do believe that there is plenty of it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2022 | redemption, Suffering
Joni Eareckson in 2017 observed the following about her devastating accident that had left her paralyzed for 50 years: “God allows all sorts of things he doesn’t approve of. God hated the torture, injustice, and treason that led to the crucifixion. Yet he...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 15, 2022 | Suffering
June 15,2016 The news reports emerging from the investigation of the Orlando Pulse bar shooting are as horrifying as the reports of the shooting itself. The shooter himself was reported to be gay by his ex-wife and others? That she knew about his plans and said...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 3, 2022 | Suffering
“Every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Perhaps it will not necessarily be by sweet fellowship and peaceful evangelism….. Maybe God has something else in mind based on humankind’s historical unwillingness to learn...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 28, 2022 | Suffering
Simply admiring Jesus and being a member of a church does not constitute being a Christian. It is obedience in following him that defines a Christian. Francis Chan told of one leader of a group of underground house churches in China who said that Westerners seem to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | Suffering
So many of the girls and boys affected by childhood sexual abuse will wind up further vicitimized by their inability to find freedom from the shame and hurt and will wind up living lives of addiction to substances or promiscuity or further abuse. Secrets and shame...
