WHAT TO EXPECT ON THE THISTLEBEND BLOOM BLOG
Bloom! is a personal look into a few women’s lives as they participate in Thistlebend studies and follow the Lord as He tills their hearts. May you be encouraged as you experience the tilling, the Lord is doing in your own heart!
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 […]
Man’s Rebellion
God saw all that He created and called it very good. HOWEVER, man fell prey to temptation and into sin.Man rebelled against his maker, his Lord, and his provider, doubting His goodness, disobeying His command, desiring for himself that which only God deserved, bringing death to his soul. For the wages of sin is death. […]
Gospel Moments (12): Made in the Image of God (Part Six)
Genesis 1:27 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. It is the first Monday morning of a new year, a new beginning. The first day back to work for many people, the first day back to school for many […]
Gospel Moments (11): Made in the Image of God (Part Five)
Genesis 1:27 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. What does it mean to you that you have been created in the image of God? It is important that we don’t follow our own ideas and inventions but that […]
Gospel Moments (10): Made in the Image of God (Part Four)
Genesis 1:27 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. What does it mean to be created in the image of God? This has challenged theologians for centuries. Many commentators have much to say regarding specific metaphysical questions about the […]
Gospel Moments (9): Made in the Image of God (Part Three)
Genesis 1:27 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. You may be wondering what is the purpose of walking so slowly through these verses.I have discovered that most of us, including myself, do not slow down enough to fully […]
Gospel Moments (8): Made in the Image of God (Part Two)
Genesis 1:27-31 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and […]
Gospel Moments (7): Prayer and Praise
Genesis 1:1 ESV In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:27 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. The more we meditate upon God’s Word the more it shapes how we think, how we feel, […]