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The Sparrow

25 January 2019 By David Trounce 2 Comments

The Sparrow - sermo humilis

Here is a poem by my late, great and very good friend, Norm Phillips from Camden in NSW, Australia. May he rest in peace. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. (Matthew 10:29) … [Read more...] about The Sparrow

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Death, Poetry, Sparrows

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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.