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!
Look to the Cross
An Anonymous Post He is alive! We serve a risen Lord who could not be held by death or sin in the grave! This makes all the difference! I know the Lord spoke to me so gently and sweetly during worship Easter morning as I was struggling with guilt and shame over several decisions I […]
Sand?
by Susan Sampson Recently my husband saw what he thought were mice droppings in a drawer in our kitchen. I have an irrational fear of mice. We had mice several years ago, but we remodeled our kitchen and I thought that problem had been solved. I was immediately sick to my stomach and started crying […]
My Really Weird Dream
by Angie Thomas I have a really weird, reoccurring dream. I am in college and half-way through my final semester I realize that I have not been attending a class that I needed to graduate. The entire dream revolves around me trying to do whatever I can to complete this class, but over and over […]
A New Heart
by Susan Sampson God made His covenant with Abram. Abram was asleep and the Lord alone cut the covenant. Abram did nothing. He had been an idolator like all the rest of us. God mercifully chose Abram as He chose each of us. It is God who has to work first. This is His covenant […]
Will There Be Taxes in Heaven?
by Scott Kaczorowski If you are anything like me, you don’t enjoy tax season. There are probably few people who do. Even those of who end up getting refunds still have to go through the process of filling out the paper work (or hiring someone to do it for you), making sure everything is correct, […]
Compare
by Susan Sampson “Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?” (Rom. 2:4). Do we tend to think lightly of the riches of His kindness to us in Christ? Thank you, Lord, for reminding me again who […]
Your Lovingkindness
by Laurie Aker The Lord can seem so close at times and yet so far. We want to talk with Him, yet He seems out of reach. We cry out, yet we are not sure if He has heard. Our heart reverberates with a longing that we don’t know how to satisfy; then a fog […]
Infants and Salvation
by Laurie Aker and Scott Kaczorowski Our time is limited when we are together each week and often we don’t have time to delve into each topic to the depth that I would like. We recently touched on the sensitive topic of infants and salvation. Rather than gloss over it, my heart’s desire is for […]
Good Works?
by Angie Thomas For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:10) Good works? What are those exactly? The truth is I could come up with a list of things that would seem “good” to me. They would probably include things […]