by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
🐝Some interesting facts about bees 🐝 Here are 20 interesting facts about the importance of honey and bees: Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible!...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote, “Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”2 Now, of course, many circumstances are not laughing matters; for those, only faith is up to the task. But often, when faced with challenges and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
“The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, I will love this person because I need them. Or, I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want. This isn’t love at all...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hugh Ross observed: “I’ve been asked many questions about the prophecy in Matthew 2:23, “So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: ‘He will be called a Nazarene.'” The apparent problem is that there’s no Old Testament text explicitly...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
“There is only one Being who can completely satisfy to the absolute depth of the hurting human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord is so obviously uncompromising with regard to every human relationship because He knows that every relationship that is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Long before The Chosen’s signature logo of fish swimming against the flow, I was choosing to swim against the flow that carried many with it…. The more I seek to live in step with Jesus, the more contrary to the world I find myself thinking and going. From 2016...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 When I watch Marvel movies with my kids, we’re always on the hunt for Easter eggs, those glaring references or subtle nods to other Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) properties. Some references are so blatantly obvious that viewers can...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Might it be time to be accountable to who we’ve become so that we can make ourselves accountable to what we can be? Are we willing to divest ourselves of all the lesser things that we have elevated as greater things and engage in both a pointed and painful evaluation...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
I gave a devo this morning on 2 prayers in the Psalms-88 & 86. I included something a pastor told me several times…”There are 2 prayers God always answers- for wisdom and for salvation.” As I reflected on his words this week, it seemed to me that when...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Add to “Things I Never Knew” …… My paternal great grandmother, (the Carroll family side) who died when my grandmother and her sister were less than 10, was Cherokee Indian. A cousin has done some family geneology and told me today….Great grandpa Carroll...
