by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 4, 2022 | holiness
A prayer partner friend and I find that God often has us on parallel tracks….. What He is speaking to her through her activities and contacts, He is also speaking to me through mine… This is part of a devotional she shared yesterday. I had been reflecting...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 8, 2021 | attributes of Christ, community, desiring God, holiness
How personal and concerned is God about assuring that we understand how much we are loved? God used close parking spaces during a holiday season years ago to show me that HE was in charge. I had a prime spot from before Thanksgiving until after my birthday in February...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 30, 2020 | holiness, sanctification
Today’s message at Lynn Haven UMC was on “becoming”, following two previous weeks’ messages on “belonging” and “believing”. Pastor Craig Carter referenced Hebrews 9:28, “so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 26, 2018 | sanctification, Scripture Studies, spiritual formation
As I was reorganizing my bookshelves recently, once again I came across a little paperback book published by a Methodist publishing house several decades ago: “Twentieth Century Mystics.” It was about the lives of a half dozen ordinary men whose devotion...
by Bill Byrd | Mar 5, 2016 | forgiveness
What experiences in our lives inform one’s faith and practice of it? And is it any different for clergy as opposed to laity? Episcopal Priest Underwent Abortion to Finish Divinity School, Later Tanked Parish This is a disturbing report of a parish priest...