Entries by Thistlebend Admin

Don’t Be Like Candace with Your Spiritual Gifts

by Jonathan Leeman Hopefully you have not had to deal with a Candace Whitcomb in your church, but my guess is that you’ve known one or two. Her story is funny and pathetic and all too familiar. Candace Whitcomb is a character in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s 1889 short story “The Village Singer.” It begins with Miss […]

Jesus Prayed

Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 9:18-22 ESV 18 Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them,”Who do the crowds say that I am?” 19 And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has […]

Two Principles that Must Never Be Separated

by Laurie Aker First,God is intimately acquainted with us in every way: “For you formed my inward parts” ([Psalm 139] v.13). And second, God is absolutely sovereign over everything that happens to us: “…in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none […]