by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 14, 2022 | Ministry, Teaching, Titus 2 Partnership, witness
Driving today in moderately heavy after-school traffic- Me: (out loud to the driver of the red car in the center lane) I see your signal. Come on in. I’ll give you space to merge into this lane. (as several other cars zipped right by her.) Student: You always do...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 1, 2022 | witness
9/1/2014 It’s amazing what a little bit of discipleship will do! In a very brief time of working with someone, her faith begins to grow and the Holy Spirit begins to bring forth fruit in a little sapling…..as the fruit grows, others begin to see it and ask...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | Teaching, witness
Sean Dietrich this week wrote about boiled peanuts. His memoir made me smile as I, too, have stopped many times at roadside vendors and bought a bagful to eat while traveling in Alabama! It also reminded of a talk I gave at a retreat in 2001 that I began with a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 26, 2022 | witness, writing
Bill had shared this story about “Faith Moving Mountains” with some friends. I was curious about the origin of the story. Here’s what I found about the church from which the story grew. The “anonymous” video appears below the actual...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | Wisdom, witness, women in ministry
1 Peter 2:13-21 and 3:1-7, among other scriptures, has been used by some to keep women in abusive relationships – as if that is where Jesus is calling them to suffer for Him.Jesus is not calling women to passively enable an abuser to remain unchallenged and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 8, 2022 | Wisdom, witness
Some say “You KNOW that you KNOW that you KNOW”, implying that one has certainty about knowledge acquired. I prefer “I know WHAT I know” AND acknowledging there is much that I don’t know, can’t know and will never know! I know I am...
