by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 23, 2025 | Assurance of salvation, Calvinism, Grace
Part of text conversations I had with a friend Me: (Sharing a reflection from another friend today.) “If your sins hang over your head, this message is for you. Micah 7:18-19, emphasizes God‘s complete and total forgiveness. It reads, “Who is a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 23, 2025 | desiring God, Faith, spiritual growth, Teaching
Just pondering Judeo- Christian faith, internecine conflicts, spiritual conflict resolution, and peacemaking in Christ. …. Jews living in the “truth”, i.,e., the “Word” (defined by the OT available at the time of Christ) live Judaism in the literal, physical, ethnic...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m in a small group of women who have been engaged in a summer of encouragement devotional reading. It has included a very good couple of weeks of daily readings on Gideon. As I was reflecting on Gideon this is something that I recognized from his story and many...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 21, 2025 | Cultural Issues, Faith, Friendship, Uncategorized
Unless you’re going to read to the end, skip this post. The following is a surprising post I saw 7/20/25: 7/20/25 CBB Immigration law and activities continue to stay in every news report. You can’t seem to avoid the controversy. Wow! Just today I saw this post above....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 21, 2025 | affirmation, desires, Prayer
in a prayer workshop in February 2024 we were given a visioning prayer assignment in response to the way in which we felt God guiding us after the workshop. We were told to make a list of 3-4 obstacles and 3-4 opportunities arising from our sense of God’s leading. I...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 20, 2025 | Luke 10:38-42, Scripture Studies, Teaching
The sermon at my church today focused on the difference between hospitality and discipleship from Luke 10:38-42, about the actions of Martha and Mary during a visit by Jesus… take-aways I noted: 1.) Jesus was invited to dinner in their home. 2.) Martha sought to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
seen and shared: “Some Christians don’t need deliverance.They need discipline. You’re not under attack.You’re just undisciplined. Here are 5 signs your “spiritual warfare” is really spiritual laziness: You’re rebuking demons you keep inviting. “Resist the devil, and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 20, 2025 | Cultural Issues
Just pondering… for those who bemoan the expansion of Europeans into North America centuries ago, disrupting life of “ indigenous “ peoples…. (in defending a position favoring free and unfettered immigration to the US) ….No one was ever “indigenous “ to North America....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 9, 2025 | experiences, music, Uncategorized
We had our summer of encouragement study group meeting yesterday. I’m praying it will turn into a new band. This morning I’m thinking about Joshua and Caleb and how disappointed they must have been with the adoption of the minority report and certainly with the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 8, 2025 | Ministry, Titus 2 Partnership
– Transported mother with her child that needed pre-surgical consult to a specialist in Gainesville – Transported a mother in long term life recovery to spend time with her adult child now in an out of town recovery program, too. – Assisted...
