New to Faith

When something needs to be repurposed, maybe it has lost its value or become worn and broken. People can feel that way when it comes to faith. The Repurposed Faith challenge will refresh and redirect your priorities to Christ and His Word. Short devotions will help identify the “roadblocks” that may have derailed your quiet time and you will be motivated to reconnect with God in a meaningful, intimate way.

Repurposed Faith Quiet Time Challenge

This is a 15-day plan focused on how God makes All Things New, through transformational moments in Peter's story.

All Things New

Inspired by the book, Know Your Bible Devotions for Women, this Plan provides 7 readings focusing on important verses in scripture, offering background, insight, and encouraging takeaways. You’ll get a fascinating overview of different books of the Bible—an excellent primer if you’re new to God’s Word, and a helpful refresher if you’re already familiar with scripture.

Know Your Bible Devotions for Women

The God Provides series offers a rich, dramatic journey through theater-quality, short films which show us wisdom, truth, encouragement and practical steps to deepen a relationship of trust with God.  As illustrated in this session’s film, God spoke encouraging and unusual words through the prophet Jeremiah that required the exiles to exercise great faith in God and do something unprecedented for exiles at that time in history to do.  

God Provides: "God's Design for Hope" - Jeremiah's Call 

Hold fast to that which is "of first importance!" The Apostle Paul declares that the resurrection is the paramount message of the Bible. Apply this life and heart-transforming truth to your heart. This seven-day plan by Thistlebend is an adaptation of a sermon by a fellow church member, Adam Wilson. We hope it blesses you as it blessed us!

The Resurrection: "Of First Importance"

Prayer is essential. Prayer is powerful. Prayer is hard. Most of us feel like we're not doing it often enough or well enough, and we're tempted to give up trying. Instead, let's go back to school and allow the WORD of God to teach us how to TALK to God.

The School of Prayer

Are you in a season where Bible reading feels more like an item on your  To-Do List than a joy? Do you feel like you “should” read it, know it, and enjoy it more?  What if the “should” could turn to “want?”  (I have spent the last 20 years showing people how to do just that!) These simple, daily tips will light your Bible reading fire again. 

5 Tips That Will Ignite Your Bible Reading

Your heart must never become a well-beaten path. It must be guarded well. Too many voices, too many words, too many circumstances can cause your heart to be worn and incapable of grasping what God wants to whisper to it. Let's clear the path and keep the heart healthy and intentionally moving forward.

Heart Health

Seeds, they’re everywhere.  Your words, your money, your children and even you, yourself, are a seed! How do these seeds work and why should it matter to us?  Let’s see what the Bible has to say and discover how it can apply to our lives in order to bring us closer to God and His purpose for us.
