Barbara Byers
Living by Grace
In The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that discipleship is simply the reception of grace. Discipleship, the process of...
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Barbara Byers
Oct 6, 20232 min
Giving Weight To
Proverbs 4:23 exhorts us to watch over our own hearts with care because everything we do flows from that. As part of this watching over...
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Barbara Byers
Sep 4, 20232 min
The Way Through Disappointment
Some years ago, I was asking the Lord about some very gifted people I knew who seemingly had dropped out of church life. They had once...
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Barbara Byers
Aug 14, 20232 min
The Trap of Second-Guessing
Sometimes we are preoccupied with re-thinking past decisions and old conversations, looking within ourselves for answers, imagining how...
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Barbara Byers
Jul 25, 20232 min
Baked or Boiled?
In Exodus 14 and 15 we read of the parting of the Red Sea, the Israelites passing over to dry ground, and the death of Pharoah’s army....
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Barbara Byers
Jun 22, 20232 min
Interruption
For several months I’d been praying for wisdom over a particular need. Sounds like a great thing to do, right? One day I was praying in...
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Barbara Byers
May 12, 20232 min
Weeds
Last spring my 8 year-old grandson Sam was helping me pull up weeds in my flower beds (a bane of my existence!). His 2 year-old brother...
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Barbara Byers
Apr 24, 20232 min
Passing the Test
Wouldn’t we love to go through life without encountering obstacles? Sometimes they come so unexpectedly, so painfully, and upset our...
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Barbara Byers
Jan 27, 20232 min
Enough is Enough!
Are you naming your future from faith or from regret? Regret is common to us all, but it can disable our future by locking us into the...
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Barbara Byers
Dec 27, 20222 min
Moses's Reward
Although born an Israelite, Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s household, having been rescued from the waters of the Nile as a baby. Once grown,...
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Barbara Byers
Oct 9, 20221 min
His Nearness
He is the God who is near. And his nearness is our good (Ps. 73:28). When our heart is broken and our “sorrow is beyond healing” (Jer....
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Barbara Byers
Aug 23, 20222 min
Practicing Detachment
2 Kings 5 tells the story of Naaman, valiant commander of the Syrian army, who was stricken with leprosy. At the urging of a little...
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Barbara Byers
Jul 27, 20222 min
Anticipation
Theologians use a term called “prevenient love” as a characteristic of God’s heart. “Pre” means “before” so his love is “occurring or...
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Barbara Byers
Jul 10, 20222 min
Victims No More
Our Father is so ready to turn our sorrows and sufferings into good, to bring beauty from the ashes of the past. Healing from...
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Barbara Byers
Jun 11, 20222 min
Infusion of Strength
The prophetic words of Isaiah declared that a Savior would come and take up our infirmities (Matt. 8:17). The Greek word for infirmity...
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Barbara Byers
May 21, 20221 min
The Way is Not Closed
“Spirit can be known only by spirit – God’s Spirit and our spirits in open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything...
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Barbara Byers
Mar 26, 20222 min
Turning Aside
In Exodus 3 on the far side of the wilderness, a bush was burning but not consumed. Moses, noticing it, said “I must turn aside to...
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Barbara Byers
Feb 14, 20222 min
Bridging the Transition
We live from season to season. In nature winter becomes spring, then summer and autumn. The changing seasons speak to us of God’s...
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Barbara Byers
Jan 17, 20222 min
Sea of Distress
During our lifetime, we will encounter stormy seas. Isaiah wrote (43:2ff): “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and...
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