5/27/14 by Joni Byrd Saying Goodbye with Grace I am studying for a degree in counseling, and in a textbook, I recently read a statement about hospice care that really caught my attention. The book stated that it is often during the last days, hours, or even minutes...
From 5/27/2014 Has anyone else noticed how many Facebook posts show up with pictures and platitudes that seem to be excusing people for not being “perfect”? Some are humorous. Some are poignant. Some are combative. There are plenty of various types that...
In February of this year, 2022, Peter J. Bellini wrote a series of three articles for Firebrand magazine entitled “Thunderstruck: The Deliverance Ministry of John Wesley.” He cites various writings by Wesley on demonic encounters and classifies them...
“Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors” From 12/13/2003 This phrase, a motto used by the United Methodist Church since 2001, had grated somewhat on my nerves when it was rolled out as the denomination’s motto. It had appeared to me that it reflected a little too...
29 was a hard end-of decade year for me. I remember it fraught with a lot of self doubts. At 29 I also did something totally out of character, a biggie, on the level of a violation of one of the Big Ten, something that my church background said would send me to...
We emphasize healthy sleep habits at Titus 2. Four years ago on a social media site I asked a question: “Is it just me or has anyone else ever experienced this?…..Today I laid down on a quilt on the floor of my office for a short cat nap, feeling very...
I had a sweet conversation with someone who shared with me that she had realized that all these years she’d been reading the Bible in a literal sense only and missing some of its meaning and richness. She said she has begun to recognize that there is spiritual...
Thinking about prayer: I re-read through Myles Munroe’s book on the power of prayer one weekend. Although a controversial evangelical figure who died in 2014, I found his writing on prayer to be insightful. I began collecting prayers years ago. I have a book of...
The summer after Hurricane Michael a Titus 2 student and I stopped and dug up a clump of black eyed Susan wildflowers on our little road that were in jeopardy of being run down by trucks coming in and out pulling out downed trees in the acreage across the road from...
Someone told me that he envisioned me as marching on the gates of hell with a water pistol. I’d had another describe my efforts in spiritual battle as being more like a fly on the rump of a stallion. LOL! I guess others see my efforts in spiritual warfare as...
