by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 14, 2010 | spiritual growth
I have been invited to be the keynote speaker for a spiritual enrichment retreat next March. Though it’s over eight months away, I have already had to put to paper an outline for the weekend’s messages on rather short notice. It’s not as hard as one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 14, 2010 | holiness, justification, sanctification
“The one (justification)implies what God does for us through His Son; the other (sanctification) what He works in us by His Spirit.” John Wesley Righteousness. How it comes to be, if at all, is amazing. Covered, as with snow, by the imputation of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 26, 2010 | desires, shoes
I have written several times about shoes. This past week I had to face the fact that a favorite pair of slide-on sandals needed to be relegated to “junk-shoe-kick-about” status or thrown in the trash. They had been a daily and Sunday all purpose shoe. So I...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 21, 2010 | confession, Twelve Step recovery
I have always loved the section in the Hallelujah chorus that quotes Isaiah 9:6b “And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” The way in which it is sung suggests that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 21, 2010 | peace
I have often been surprised by the way in which God works things out. There are times when His way is so unexpected. That has been the case recently as I have watched Him work out discord between two people. I knew that I was not in any way to be an instrument of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 28, 2010 | doctrine, Teaching
Saddleback Church has published a DVD curriculum called Foundations. It’s 11 DVDs with 4 sessions per DVD on various basic Christian doctrines. I am enjoying facilitating a class that is using the curriculum. Most everyone is a new Christian and they are really...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 26, 2010 | Aging
At 56 years old, I’m living my life and making plans as if I have plenty of time to realize the goals I’m setting. Just a few days ago I was talking to my husband about something in our home that we’d had a while…..25 years to be exact. As soon...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 25, 2010 | family
I’ve read before that our universe is in the process of expanding, everything moving outward from the center and enlarging all the time. Now I have a close, first hand experience of that myself.Just over a week ago our son and his family moved from thirteen...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 28, 2010 | service
For the last six weeks our church has been working through a spiritual growth campaign that our staff designed and implemented…..RENEW: Connect, Grow, Serve. This weekend is the grand finale, which we called cityREACH. Today about 400 of our church members...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 28, 2010 | family
This week we have learned that our son, daughter in law, and their three children, who had told us a few weeks ago that they were moving to our community, are actually moving across the street from us! They’ve had an eye on that house for a couple of years,...
