by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 16, 2023 | witness
4/16/16 God makes use of everything….everything that happens to us can become a springboard that God will use. As I have shared with students and others through the years, however, sometimes God uses it as a good example…Other times he uses it as a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 6, 2023 | discipleship training, Teaching, Twelve Steps, witness
I am discipling a middle-age woman with no childhood experience of religious practice but a growing realization that the only way she is going to gain power over her addiction of 25+ years is through Christ. (She has been in 7 recovery programs and multiple detoxes in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 28, 2022 | redemption, scripture, spiritual life, witness
I love how God gradually reveals things about oneself, little tidbits of information and insights gleaned here and there over years, then one day just hits you with it: “This is you!” This morning I was meditating on His Word. Suddenly in my mind’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 10, 2022 | Suffering, Wisdom, witness
From Dec 10,2020 A friend introduced me recently to another widow friend of hers. We had a good time getting acquainted and sharing something of our experiences with one another. My friend who introduced us keeps telling me we need to start a group for the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 7, 2022 | doctrine, God's will, The Church, True Religion, Trust, witness, Worldview
Some ask, “Why is The UMC breaking up.” It’s being cleaved….. in my observation and my sincere opinion is that it is an act by none other than the hand of God. “Cleave- split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 2, 2022 | witness
From my journal 12/2/2018…. “With each opportunity to tell others about the wonders of Christ’s love as he has worked in our lives comes a greater degree of confidence that God has been bringing one through experiences which, when consecrated to Him and...