by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2022 | leadership
From August 26, 2016 I am working on a Bible study on the book of Joshua. In doing so, I am reflecting on the leadership attributes that made Joshua great and successful. The Titus 2 ladies shared a devotional from God’s Little Devotional Book (page 198-199). It is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2022 | community, discipleship training, Friendship
If you are not meeting weekly …… with.2 or 3 or a handful of folks together in close, accountable, studious Christian community (single gender) and pondering the principles, proclamations, prohibitions, and promises of God’s Word and how to apply it to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2022 | Gifts, giving
From 2014…. I’m considering gifts today…..some received, some given, some valued, some cast aside. Some gifts are given that reflect the heart of the giver. Other gifts are given because they remind the giver of the heart of the receiver. Think of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2022 | promises, spiritual life
When we know and love the Lord he sits upon the great white throne of judgment within hearts cleansed, purified and granted complete pardon. We can come anytime to seek his wisdom and judgment regarding our choices. He will guide us by his standards of good and evil,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 25, 2022 | grief
I had a conversation with someone who shared that she had had a beloved relationship who OD’d on meth. It was suspected suicide but she fretted that acknowledging that might mean he is condemned to hell. She admitted that she pulled away into a world of her own where...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 25, 2022 | love, Perfection in love, scripture
In an online devotional today the theme is trust…. “In God We Trust?” Seedbed.com/dailytext , August 25, 2002. For me, God has come to be the only person and force in which I fully can put my trust. For a number of years I have taught that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 22, 2022 | Friendship, memories
Tribe of spiritual mothers who took me in during my 40’s and taught me that we need never do life alone……loved me out of fear of being alone and into belonging to community of interdependent faith in Christ! I watched as four of them modeled the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 20, 2022 | family, recovery
Many times I have counseled a person with a dysfunctional family member or close friend that she is not likely to be the one God will use to address this family member’s issues, no matter how much she loves the individual, can see the issues, and wants to help....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 20, 2022 | Holy Spirit
Jesus’ words do not always come to us in seeming gentleness and with hope, but convicting and with warning…….unless we are able to read with hearts that are open to his own heart, with minds that desire to know his own mind. I”m preaching on...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2022 | sanctification, scripture
Joni Eareckson Tada writes in her online devotional from 8/18/2014: Experiencing Christ “I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in...
