Hannah Boyd

Mother of 4. Follower of Christ. Seeking Him daily to extend His grace to others.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

Anyone else have trouble getting excited about a Kenyan sweep @bostonmarathon with all the doping by Kenyans in the past?

[Andrew Boyd, MD @VC_Doc]

@elonmusk There are Starlink receivers all over my rural community. Capitalism solved the access problem, while the federal government’s $42 billion plan has been ensnared in the regulatory process for four years.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@BethMooreLPM North and South. I’ve seen the tv drama but the book is wonderful!

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

This way of life so beautifully packaged that sounds free and fun and still makes room somewhere for Jesus is not exactly the life he called his disciples to.

We naturally want Jesus without the baggage. That’s completely understandable.
But there is one piece of baggage that comes with Jesus. A cross. I don’t particularly love this part either but it doesn’t change what he designed. Jesus said to us, if anyone wants to come after me, let those persons deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me.

We’re called to lay down our self-centered lives and, in effect, lose them and, in turn, find this Jesus life we were created to live and a love that would be utterly beyond us.

This way of the cross, this way of daily seeking (not always succeeding) to decentralize self and centralize Christ, has not been, for me, religious bondage and legalism. It has been my freedom. It has been the healing of a self destructive and deceitful heart. If I had just done whatever I was drawn to, I’m pretty sure I’d long since be dead.

I don’t hate myself. I don’t deny my feelings and emotions. I don’t distrust every desire of my heart. I don’t have to analyze them constantly. I can trust a good many of them but, honestly, only because Jesus is Lord and I’m not.

Jesus is not just our help though he is certainly that. He is not just an aside to our lives or a means to manifesting our dreams. For those who follow him, what we discover increasingly along this rocky way is that Jesus is our life. Our whole life.

And this life in all its hardship and suffering and befuddlement is a good life that gives itself to others, that loves sacrificially and is willing to lose in order for others to win Christ. And this life gives way in the blink of an eye to a life of everlasting joys in his presence.

Hold tight to the gospel.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@dogluvr3333 @karenvaites This is for you 🥇. Bless you!

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@MikeCosper Praying for her now.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@_Andy_Boyd_ @amphichrome_ 9/11 increased community bonds while COVID burned them to the ground as you said.

[Andrew Boyd, MD @VC_Doc]

One aspect of Medicaid that is under-discussed is its all-or-nothing approach to the safety net.

I saw a patient yesterday with hypertension and diabetes. He’s on multiple medications, some of which are very expensive. He told me he’d been out of meds for 3 months.

He had been self-pay for years but a couple years ago got on Medicaid. He works low-skill jobs, but as a single person household his income recently disqualified him from Medicaid. He purchased insurance on the ACA marketplace, but as is usually the case he dropped it when his Rx copay was $1200 and he learned about the $8700 deductible.

So his insurance status flips between a plan with no premiums, no deductibles, and no copays and the ACA with built-in costs that obviously preclude his ability to provide for his basic needs and then back to self-pay.

I have heard the BBB includes some cost-sharing for Medicaid and I think this could be a reasonable partial solution to the above dilemma.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

I only noticed because I read that passage recently and found how Samuel concluded it surprising. I am appreciating your work and hope to grow in my understanding of the fear of God.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@mike_reeves Reading R & T and trying to consider points made about the sinful fear Israelites had toward God. Here you quote Samuel’s reply in 2Sam12:20-24. But you leave out verse 25: “But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

“I have read many beautiful things in Plato and Cicero, but never this: ‘Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden.’”
— Augustine

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

One of the younger women in our church works a couple days a week, and is about 6 weeks away from giving birth to her 2nd child. I asked her if I could bring her family supper once a week on one of her work days in the last month of pregnancy, so she could get a bit more rest. She's super excited about this.

I don't say this to toot my own horn, but to demonstrate that this is what "gospel mentoring" is that I teach about. Yes, discipleship is the right word. But I think a lot of times we think of teaching as words--telling them what to do, and what standard you think they should reach.

But it's so much deeper than that. It involves listening to what they are dealing with. Jesus didn't just go around teaching people. He healed them along the way. He ate with them. He told them stories. He washed their feet.

Discipleship involves a ton of service. I'm not standing above her, inspecting her Christian life. I'm trying to figure out where she's struggling the most and saying "how can I help?"

I'm not trying to get anything out of bringing her supper, other than maybe she trusts me a bit more, and more opportunities to encourage her face to face during what I remember being an intense time when our family went from 1-2 kids, and experiencing that 3rd trimester with a toddler to chase.

It's not about whether or not she should be working. It's not about imparting my opinions. It's listening, and brainstorming ways to be the hands and feet of Jesus, and looking for ways to tangibly show them that Christ is our rest.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@jesseeubanks @MikeCosper Hopefully all Christians can see the Biblical mandate to care for the poor. However I do think recently left-leaning Christians conflate voting for more gvnt programs as fulfilling their personal moral obligations to their neighbor.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch

https://t.co/gPGrShE2dk

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@sometimesalight NPR now is not what it was even 15 years ago. I listened a lot at that time and even as a conservative I felt it was even-handed and objective. It’s not anymore and I’ve felt the loss b/c there’s no one else in that space.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@BeamMeUpScotee @DavidAFrench @SykesCharlie It’s not just Trump supporters that have a problem with free speech, unfortunately. The way speech was suppressed during Covid was shocking to me.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@HumanProbably2 @texasrunnerDFW If you have 6 people in your family like we do, in an Airbnb you can all stay together. Cheaper than two hotel rooms and nicer because you can cook some of your own meals.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man’s image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@garonnevik To be a sports mom is to feel it all too much, I think. My son, a hs senior, got a stress fracture during the district XC meet this year. Just like that, his dreams of a second try at the state meet were gone. It was tough.

[Hannah Boyd @hannahcboyd]

@JW_Lumley @Bferg999 @MikeCosper @gavinortlund You should listen to what Gavin has actually said on the topic, not the mischaracterization from someone else.