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!
The Line in the Sand. The Love of God.
by Scott Kaczorowski What follows is a strong statement. But hopefully not a controversial one. The single most important thing that any Christian needs to understand is how deeply God loves them in Christ. Paul prays that the Ephesians will have an understanding of God’s deep love: For this reason I bow my knees before […]
Loving Our Wives (So They Know It)
by Scott Kaczorowski In a recent Falling in Love Again with Your Lord lecture, Laurie Aker spoke about what it means/looks like to truly seek after God. One area where she applied this to the ladies was submission to their husbands–even if they don’t agree or understand or think it makes any sense. Men, we […]
Lord, Help Me Pray More Like You
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 6:12-16 ESV 12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom […]
Draw Near and Be Healed
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 6:17-19 ESV 17 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, 18 who came to hear him […]
God as Searching Shepherd
by Dottie Ryan Through this study we are learning that God loves us. And this is so necessary for us to know and even experience if we are to follow Him — to fall in love again with Him. When God called us to Himself, it was just like when He chose the Israelites to […]
Fix It?
by Angie Thomas I struggled one morning to make my morning appointment with God. I stumbled out of bed to my rocking chair and sat half-awake staring at my Bible thinking, “I don’t really want to read this.” My heart felt hard and my faith was lacking. As a result, I was feeling weary. The […]
Why Don’t You Pray?
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 6:12-16 ESV 12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom […]
Why Don’t People Pray?
Thistlebend Quiet eMoment by Laurie Aker Focus Scripture: Luke 6:12-16 ESV 12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom […]
Lock Arms
by Dottie Ryan “O God, you are my God; earnestly I see you” (Psalm 63:1). Again I was confronted with my own obstacles (sometimes self-inflicted) and weaknesses: the lies I have believed, the sin I continue to walk in, ignore, or discount, my idols I have not either identified or decided to lay down, my […]