by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 7, 2022 | forgiveness, repentance
I had written about Judas and his descent into despair and suicide after his betrayal of Jesus and about Peter’s response to the same sense of failure and betrayal. When one rejects condemnation from the enemy, embraces the convicting work of the Holy Spirit...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | forgiveness
A friend told me about a young man, a veteran of the US’s Afghanistan war, who admitted having a great deal of anger and unforgiveness that led him to drunken rages. When she talked to him about about forgiveness he told her God had allowed him to not forgive....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 1, 2022 | forgiveness
It is amazing how simply understanding why something that seemed so out of character and incomprehensible in the behavior of someone came to be gives one the freedom to finish the hard labor of forgiveness that has struggled to be born. Thank you, Lord, for your gifts...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | desires, emotions, grief, Prayer
3/10/2017 A young man with whom Bill and I had some personal experience in our work with the Rescue Mission 4-5 years ago and who later continued his efforts in substance abuse recovery through another men’s program was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 8, 2021 | Life Recovery, Ministry
I and others have observed that religion is about belonging and behaving….. about affiliation with others and embracing the values and practices of the group. Life in Christ, Christianity, is about believing Christ is God and becoming Christlike through receiving the...
