by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 9, 2022 | discipleship training
Worth restating: Declaration “I am a Disciple” I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I am above and not beneath. I am the head and not the tail. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am accepted in the Beloved and His royal blood flows through my veins. I am a part of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 9, 2022 | discipleship training
The Fellowship of the Unashamed I am part of the “Fellowship of the Unashamed.” The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 9, 2022 | change, recovery
When someone has attempted to control a person all of her life by berating her and calling her “stubborn” because she won’t do what they want, how does she decide to give that over to God and what does God desire to put in its place? That was the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 9, 2022 | Holy Spirit, time, Uncategorized
For those who have experienced the Emmaus Movement, I took away a sense of the “present” moment-ness of the Holy Spirit’s abiding as we were introduced to the “Fourth day” concept ( for me in 1992) …. that while our experience of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 9, 2022 | boundaries
Boundary Setting in Relationships- There are occasions when meek, emotionally-controlled, wounded women come to Titus 2 who have been subjected to abuse in one or more forms- emotional, physical, financial, sexual, psychological, spiritual, or relational....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 8, 2022 | nature
As a ladybug fan, this little news tidbit was interesting to me! Nah, it couldn’t be God, right? Ladybug wings a marvel of engineering, design A team of Japanese researchers has solved a puzzle surrounding ladybug wings that has stymied scientific engineers for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 8, 2022 | Teaching
I am so very blessed to have been raised in a family in which a commitment to being in church/VBS/Sunday School was made by our parents. There was a spiritual foundation that came from my early training that I was able to build on as an adult. (Hmmmmm, I think God...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 7, 2022 | judging
I love, love, love Jill Carattini’s devotionals. At Titus 2 we work a lot on understanding the human condition that plagues us all, as part of Step 1 and our powerlessness over it, as Paul says in Romans- “For the good that I would I do not, but the evil...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 7, 2022 | Ministry
In Scripture we do not observe Christ serving the Pharisees…except in the dark of night when one came to him to acknowledge that he recognized Christ’s authority and to ask questions….Mostly we see Christ, as he was in their presence over meals, in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 7, 2022 | discipleship training
From June 7,2017: Not all of what we do at Titus 2 happens in the classroom. In fact, much of it happens in the day to day coming and going and doing of life. One Sunday as we traveled to church, a young lady said to me, “Being a friend of Jesus is hard. No...
