What’s on my mind? ……Delighting in a lovely, unique Christmas card, the design of which is made using banana bark! On first glance one might see Madonna and Child with Dove….. but somehow it suggests to me, as well, Hagar with Ishmael as refugees in...
Experiencing Christ…..Each Friday I gather with 4 other women for fellowship, Bible study, and accountability. What a joy it is to “know and be known, love and be loved, admonish and be admonished, serve and be served, and celebrate and be...
I have fond memories of time spent with family. Being together with cousins and siblings and other extended family for a holiday gathering reminded me of how those memories came about…….through time spent together…. through meals shared over the family table, through...
12-1-2019 Advent sermon, First Church of God-PC CBByrd HOPE, PEACE, JOY, LOVE Romans 15:13-17- “May the God of HOPE fill you with all JOY and PEACE as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with HOPE by the power of the Holy Spirit.” This week we...
Thinking About Real Love Two Essential Elements of Love In God’s Image I’ve had several opportunities recently to reflect on the subject of “love”.. mostly in regard to Advent themes and the love of God for us and the call for us to love God AND love...
When a man and woman get married, if each brings priority of life in Christ to the relationship and manages to negotiate the currents and stay in the boat, they are probably able to understand quantum mechanics. Last night Bill and I watched Einstein’s Quantum...
There was a time in my life, after I made a full surrender of all of who I believed myself to be to all I believed I knew of God, that God began to show me great and wonderful things in the Word. I was humbled and awestruck by the things God would speak to my heart...
I received a message recently from a Facebook friend who asked this: “Cathy, you had a post awhile back regarding a young man, I think, with addiction problems that had died and how God sometimes calls people home, releasing them from their misery – does that...
Romans 15:13-17- “May the God of HOPE fill you with all JOY and PEACE as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with HOPE by the power of the Holy Spirit.” This coming week we will shift from October to November. Have you realized there are only 61...
