by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
I was listening to a book on tape recently by Cloud and Townsend. In it John Townsend talks about the difference between wishing and hoping. Wishing originates in one’s own desires and is purely a result of one’s own wants or needs. It has no objective...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’ve been preparing for and teaching a class based on Ergun Caner’s “When Worldviews Collide” (Lifeway). He has an interesting overview section on types of apologetics. 1.) Positive apologetics- as practiced by Barnabas (Son of Encouragement)-...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
Thirty one years ago tonight I was giving birth to my second child, a girl. I can remember much about that night. There is one moment in particular when the doctor shouted, “Get in here stat, the heart rate’s going.” Detached as I was, with...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
I forwarded the timestamp post below ( See “Time in a Bottle”) to a friend, a pastor, whose intellect I appreciate. And wouldn’t you know it, he immediately replied, “Won’t it happen again in a thousand years?”He’s absolutely...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
It is amazing to me that it is already Mar 15th. We’re halfway through the third month of 2006, almost a quarter of the way done. Wasn’t Christmas just last week…..? My life seems to be more full now than ever. Is that what makes the time seem to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
My husband and I had the pleasure of cruising in the Caribbean for 7 nights recently. This was the fourth cruise for us and the accomodations on the ms Westerdam (Holland America Line) were the best we’d experienced. I must say, however, that I was disappointed...
