by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 16, 2026 | brokenness, children's ministry, doubt, redemption, spiritual growth, Wisdom, worship
2/15/26. CBB Today in church, Wendy Askew, who does children’s ministry at Christ Methodist Church-Montgomery, shared about a time she was talking to children about the feast in heaven. She was having them imagine being in heaven at the feast, what they would be...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 20, 2025 | Assurance of faith, Assurance of salvation, Teaching, witness
Assurance…. A hallmark doctrine of Methodism….. yet do we really “get it?” Assurance is not “all about the heart”….. it’s only about the heart after one’s heart has been circumcised and healed by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit operating by invitation to Jesus...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 23, 2025 | Grace, Truth
“Keep in mind, we are not aiming at a 50-50 mix of the two. This isn’t about living in the so-called “tension” or trying to find a “middle way” between them. It is 100%-100%—Word and Spirit bonded in an inseparable, indivisible nuptial union.” jdwalt Me, pondering….....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 10, 2022 | Words and Writing, Worldview
From a favorite writer, Jill Carattini, 12/10/2014 Salvation or Sentimentality? “Who has understood the mind of the LORD?”(Isaiah 40:13) This God who moves among people, touching all of life and history is certainly not the quiet and tame being we often imagine. God’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 17, 2022 | Wisdom
I gave a devo this morning on 2 prayers in the Psalms-88 & 86. I included something a pastor told me several times…”There are 2 prayers God always answers- for wisdom and for salvation.” As I reflected on his words this week, it seemed to me that...
