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Your Last Day

30 October 2022 By David Trounce

You Have Today - Sermo Humilis

  The church I grew up in had a perpetual interest with what the bible calls, the "Last Day". Sermons, studies, and conversations were peppered with Final Judgement stories that were vivid enough to scare you, but also distant enough to be dismissed as soon as the … [Read more...] about Your Last Day

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Death, Last Day, Today

Words Fitly Spoken

27 October 2022 By David Trounce

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It's been said that a person's vocabulary is a predictor of their comprehension. In other words, a person with a small vocabulary is less likely to understand what he is reading or hearing than a person with a large vocabulary. Makes sense. Scripture encourages us to have a … [Read more...] about Words Fitly Spoken

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Deception, Honesty, Words

Evolution and the Devolution of Man

23 October 2022 By David Trounce

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According to the standard definition, evolution is the result of a mechanism known as natural selection. This natural selection results in organisms that are more likely to survive and reproduce. The problem with this idea is the total lack of testable and repeatable … [Read more...] about Evolution and the Devolution of Man

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Corruption, Devolution, Evolution

The Mouth of the Righteous

20 October 2022 By David Trounce

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There's an idea making the rounds these days that being sweet, soft and agreeable somehow makes you good. That the talkative guy who's in touch with his feminine side is somehow virtuous. That the young woman who's agreeable to anything and everything is somehow tolerant and … [Read more...] about The Mouth of the Righteous

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Language, Power, Words

People Pleasing

16 October 2022 By David Trounce

The Vanity of People Pleasing - Sermo Humilis

When it came to eating food offered to idols in a way that pricked the conscience of a new believer, the Apostle Paul said that he would seek to please that believer and give up eating meat (1 Corinthians 10:33). He also said that he wasn't the least bit interested in pleasing … [Read more...] about People Pleasing

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Pride, Truth, Vanity

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.