by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 31, 2025 | discipleship training, John 17:6-26, spiritual life, Teaching
12/31/2025. CBB. Report of a text conversation with a friend with whom I have journeyed over a number of years…. This is what discipling the “self” in others looks like out of one’s own experience of being discipled in Christ by His Holy Spirit.Sister-Friend; Happy...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 19, 2025 | childhood memories, redemption, Teaching, The Church, time, Worldview
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,” replied the angel, “and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason he shall be called the Son of God.”Luke 1:35 This is the beauty and majesty of the Advent story and the angel’s Annunciation to Mary for us:...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 17, 2025 | Beatitudes, Teaching
God spoke words of comfort and hope to me over 20 years ago through the Beatitudes of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. In them He revealed a rich and beautiful path for moving from my brokenness (“poverty of spirit” Matt. 5:3) and reliance on things of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 12, 2025 | spiritual battle, Teaching, writing
“Armageddon is only found one time, in the entirety, of the Bible. Yet it is one, of the most recognizable end time events known around the world. Today, the Valley of Armageddon looks nothing like it’s violent past or its future. Today, it is a fertile...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | Comfort, Prayer, Teaching
In a daily devotional online recently we covered a passage from Luke 22 regarding Christ’s prayer in the Mount of Olives before His arrest. Days later I’m still gleaning in the Luke 22 account of Jesus praying in agony with the knowledge of God’s will yet struggling...
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...
