by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 27, 2023 | judging
Sarah Westfall writes beautifully about a human failing called “Fundamental Attribution Error.” Most of us get caught up in a FAE at one time or another. It may be in an incidental momentary yank of the steering wheel as one overcompensates for a momentary...
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 | Feb 25, 2023 | God's will, Holy Spirit, mind, nature, Purpose
A prayer partner, close confidential friend and I have a particular interest in scientific evidence of God’s work in creation, including some aspects of biblical numerology or what the Hebrews call “sacred geometry.”. She had sent me a brief video...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2023 | righteousness, spiritual life, Ten Commandments, theology, Wisdom
Someone asked me a few years ago about a quote attributed to Jesus, wanting to know the precise source and wording used in Scripture. The caller had heard the phrase at a funeral and wanted to remember exactly what it was this deceased friend had been heard to say...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 23, 2023 | Temptation
One teaching in the Word I’ve used for years is focused on rebellion and recovery and the causes and cure. We use a “15-minute Bible study” on the topic that was first published in In Touch magazine by Dr. Charles Stanley. The causes of rebellion he...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 22, 2023 | singing
After listening to the beautiful choral arrangement of “I Am No Longer My Own”, I have spent some time today listening to “At His Name”- a choir musical. I miss choir music in church. For those of us raised singing in choirs, doing so is truly...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2023 | spiritual life, story
Master Artists exhibition at Laguna Beach Christian Retreat with Titus 2 friends: 2/21/2015 I took my book about the painting- “Forgiven” by Thomas Blackshear, that my daughter gave me for Mother’s Day in 1997 with me to an art show in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2023 | Assurance of faith
I am neither a “glass-half-empty” nor a “glass-half-full” kind of gal. I am a “the glass-can-always-be-refilled” kind of gal. That is an optimism that arises from confidence in the Source and Content, not confidence in the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2023 | attributes of Christ, Bible Study, Ministry
2/21/16 I had a great time preparing and delivering a message “The Name of God“, about God’s nature and our understanding of him for a service at Carillon Beach Chapel. I have preached and taught on this topic before but today seemed more powerful...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2023 | sewing
2/21/16 I was in the cleaners picking up laundry on a Tuesday and a law enforcement officer came in needing a new pair of uniform pants hemmed by Friday. The cleaners couldn’t have them done before Monday. I told him I knew a young lady who sews well . We...
