Entries by Thistlebend Admin

How Are You Doing?

How are you doing? Where are your thoughts? Does your heart become heavy and overcome with sadness? Are you overwhelmed with your weaknesses, sins, and failures? We all are so weak, and feeble, and frail. How frequently we find we fail and fail. How we see our wrong attitudes, hear our short words, and feel […]

Christ’s Love for Us

Can you still see and feel the remaining sin in your heart? The willfulness, rebellion, disobedience, unbelief, selfishness, greed, pride, fear, anger and more? Sin hurts and causes so much pain, sorrow, sadness, darkness and death… Sin deceives, discourages, divides, destroys, demeans… so so much more. For our sake he made him to be sin […]

Man’s Rebellion (Pt. 2)

We once lived in darkness, at enmity with God, rebellious, disobedient, unloving at our core. We were dead in our  trespasses and  sins. For the wages of sin is death. . . Romans 6:23 ESV  Sin separates us from God,  the creator and sustainer of life.  Sin did not result in the immediate physical death […]