by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 4, 2023 | Worldview
“What if we are missing the point when it comes to salvation by grace through faith? What if it is vastly larger than a cosmic (albeit legal) transaction—way more than a mere pardon? What if it is about resurrection from the dead—even before you actually die—and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 13, 2023 | Facing fears, spiritual battle, Worldview, worship
It seems that this is the second time in this Lent series that Dan Wilt, author of Jesus in the Wild, has referenced a personal experience of being on a high place, a tempting prominence where the view is breathtaking, and the heady (and frightening) feeling it can...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2023 | story, The Church, timing, Truth, used by God, Worldview, worship
I turned 69 last week. I was 15, in Southwest GA, in 1969 when the events portrayed in this movie were going on. I saw it around the fringes. But the longing that drove it was present in me, too. It would be a long journey of 23 years before the longing in me was...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 10, 2022 | Words and Writing, Worldview
From a favorite writer, Jill Carattini, 12/10/2014 Salvation or Sentimentality? “Who has understood the mind of the LORD?”(Isaiah 40:13) This God who moves among people, touching all of life and history is certainly not the quiet and tame being we often imagine. God’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 10, 2022 | relapse, role, Twelve Steps, Wellness, Worldview
This observed over and over again: “Many relapses by women are caused by trying to attract a man, keep a man, or get over losing a man…… “ The curse on women is that desire that keeps them longing for and running after a man rather than God. SMH. It took...
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 grain;...