Seek and You Will Find: A Marriage and Salvation Story :: Katie and JT Thornbury :: [Episode 309]

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This Valentine's Day week, we're bringing you a couple's story that is rare and raw. From our Homewood community, JT and Katie Thornbury openly share about the profound emptiness in their lives and marriage prior to knowing Christ—and how they miraculously came to know Him, together, well into their 30s.

For years, troubled pasts and past experiences influenced how JT and Katie approached life and faith. Plus, striving in their careers and in their parenting meant they usually focused on themselves and not on each other. But through a series of hard circumstances and intense searching, JT and Katie found their hearts and marriage healed by Him.

What better way to celebrate Valentine's than to cheer on the Thornburys and their saved marriage? And even better, their secured salvation in Christ!

In this episode, you will learn:

–Without Christ's loving direction, all areas of your life will bend toward emptiness.

–Seek Him and you will find Him; He can use your doubts to draw you to Himself.

–Even after we come to know Christ, every day requires surrender and dependence.

Links:

Reason for God by Tim Keller

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

Listen to a similar story: Andrea & Greg Carlisle- Ep. 98: "Broken & Restored: A Marriage Story and

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Transcript

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0:00.0	God was always protecting me even before I believed in him.
0:07.4	So now I know that I can rest in the safety of the Lord and that he knows me and he sees me.
0:15.3	He is in control.
0:16.6	We do have a covenantal marriage now.
0:18.5	And I believe the spirit took our hearts of stone,
0:21.7	especially mine, it burned it down and replaced it with a heart of flesh.
0:30.3	Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast, where everyday women are sharing stories of hope found in Jesus.
0:35.9	I'm Katie Dunn.
0:36.8	I'm Robin Cowan.
0:38.0	And I'm Lindy Walker.
0:39.1	And we are your podcast host.
0:40.6	As well as part of the Storytellers Live ministry where simple life stories are helping women all over the country not only increase their faith in Christ, find freedom in Christ, but also build community among women.
0:53.8	And we do that through live gatherings that we have across the country that meet in homes.
0:58.5	Today we are bringing you a very unique story.
1:01.9	I'm so glad for y'all to hear it because it is so different from J.T. and Katie Thornberry.
1:07.5	And Katie, you mentioned last week in the episode that we have a couple's story.
1:12.6	I know, you know, we're two days away from Valentine's Day.
1:15.7	Last week, we brought You Hannah's story of her being content and singleness.
1:19.3	And this week, we're bringing you a marriage story.
1:21.1	But it's really not a marriage story about centered around really a couple's love.
1:26.7	It's really more about the pursuing love
1:29.5	of a father in heaven. I love that JT and Katie were transparent enough to let us into their
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