by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2009 | decisions, discipleship training
I recall hearing that we should not place a comma where God has put a period. I think the reverse is probably equally true: do not place a period where God has put a comma. I was talking to a friend this week who commented that he’d been praying for God’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2009 | peace, shoes
I am realizing that it is time to purchase a new pair of athletic shoes. I have a particular brand and style that has become my favorite. I buy a pair and wear them until they begin to look too worn for “good” designation, then I relegate them to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 14, 2009 | discipleship training, Genesis 2:18, marriage, recovery
A woman, without her man, is nothing.A woman: without her, man is nothing.In reading a book, Flawed Families of the Bible: How God’s Grace Works Through Imperfect Relationships (David and Diana Garland, 2007, Brazos Press), I came across these two statements at...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 30, 2009 | Assurance of faith, evangelicalism, Faith
A Christianity Today online book review of the 2008 book, The Advent of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, edited by Michael Haykin and Kenneth Stewart introduced me to a quote from David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, published...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 30, 2009 | 1 Corinthians 10:13, Temptation
“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13Three...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 25, 2009 | Ministry
When I began my certification studies to become a Christian Educator in The United Methodist Church, the first thing I was challenged to do was contemplate my “calling”, to think about what it was to which I felt God inviting me. From there I had to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 20, 2009 | Luke 10:1-24, missions, Romans 10:14-15
The Alabama- West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Chruch has a new email newsletter for missions. There are good articles about mission efforts in our conference and being accomplished by our UMC Christian brothers and sisters in the conference. Check it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 18, 2009 | Acts 1:8, evangelism, Great Commission, missions
Today in Purpose Driven Life our students were studying the final few chapters on evangelism, our mission in the world to unbelievers. We were discussing the characteristics of a “worldly person” compared to a “world-class Christian”. Rick...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
My mother, sister, and I have scratched our heads a little bit and laughed together about some of my father’s perculiarities since his life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke seven years ago. I think he’d always had a little bit of an obsessive-compulsive...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 4, 2009 | healing, John 5:2-14; Mark 2:1-5; James 5:16;
Whenever I talk about faith and healing with students, I remind them that God uses a variety of means to accomplish healing and that healing itself can be of many types. God certainly uses the miraculous processes within our bodies that He designed and crafted into...
