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!
Walk in Love
by Susan Sampson Let’s see…right now my nail polish is severely chipping; my roots are at least an inch long; school supplies are scattered all over the dining room table; flowers continue to sit in the driveway unplanted; my bed isn’t made; my laundry is in a giant mound on the floor; suitcase still out; […]
The Gospel of Peace Brings Division
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 12:49-53 ESV “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to give […]
Life Is War
by Susan Sampson “Life is war.” —John Piper in “Let the Nations Be Glad” I’m sitting in the air conditioned comfort of my home right now, with my daughter out with a friend, my boys in the basement playing x-box, and the dog not barking:) It doesn’t feel at this moment of apparent calm that […]
Recalibrate
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Psalm 19 ESV 1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. 4 Their […]
On Behalf of Self
by Susan Sampson On behalf of self. No, that isn’t what God’s word says is it? Yet, this is how I live. Recently the Lord brought back to my mind the time when Jeff and I got married, 18 years ago this coming November. After being almost 30 years old and living on my own […]
When We Are Scorned
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 10:1-12 ESV 1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are […]
The Grumpy Bug
by Susan Sampson Some days he just shows up without warning. We can wake up happy and have a great morning; And then he is there; and it feels like it’s storming. The Grumpy Bug is back; he has come to steal our joy. He silently creeps in to carry out his ploy. What exactly […]
Pride vs. God’s Love
by Angie Thomas I am so weak. Seriously, so very, very weak and so easily distracted and derailed from walking in a manner worthy of the calling we have received, as Paul urges us in Ephesians 4. In a recent Seeds of Spring lecture, Laurie provided a list of things that can pull at us […]
Right Now?
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 9:57-62 ESV 57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay […]