by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 27, 2025 | Faith, Teaching, Truth
“If you are in a “full of sorrow, kind of moment right now,”know that sorrow is not the end of your story. John 16:20 is a reminder to stay faithful. God will turn your tears of sadness into tears of joy. A lasting and permanent kind of joy, a joy that the world...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 20, 2025 | Assurance of faith, Assurance of salvation, Teaching, witness
Assurance…. A hallmark doctrine of Methodism….. yet do we really “get it?” Assurance is not “all about the heart”….. it’s only about the heart after one’s heart has been circumcised and healed by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit operating by invitation to Jesus...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 14, 2025 | spiritual growth, Teaching, Truth, work
I’ve been pondering “goodness” recently as part of exploring the topic in the Fruit of the Spirit. This article from October 14,2023, discusses hedonism vs. eudaemonism. Excerpted from an article by Matthew Little, “Hedonism Vs. True Happiness” in Epoch...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2025 | attributes of Christ, Comfort, Teaching
“God is speaking to the prophet Jeremiah and through him, to all people when He says, “Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know,” Jeremiah 33:3. The struggles that lead you closer to God are worth more than any...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 12, 2025 | Galatians 5:22, holiness, Teaching
Since 1988 I have been teaching, leading groups, and discipling women toward Christian transformational living and spiritual maturity in areas that we all experience as part of the human condition— brokenness, self- interest based moral ethic, and having lost...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 9, 2025 | Mental Health, mind, self care, self worth, spiritual growth, Teaching, Uncategorized
“My therapist told me something that hit harder than I expected: She said: “People-pleasing isn’t really about pleasing others. It’s about controlling their perception of you.” And then she looked at me and said: “It’s what happens when fear starts driving—fear of...