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No Mere Mortals

28 May 2023 By David Trounce

No Mere Mortals - Sermo Humilis

Look at the people around your table or the person on the other side of the office. What do you see? Do you see a person to be conquered? Is the person across the pew someone you want to impress, outwit, outsmart, outplay? Or, do you see someone for whom the right word or act … [Read more...] about No Mere Mortals

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Destiny, Eternity, Mortality

The High Cost of Mercy

25 May 2023 By David Trounce

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Judgement is easy. Mercy is a nightmare. Hating those who offend us comes naturally, but acquitting the guilty feels like torture. The reason for this is that mercy always comes at the cost of the one granting it. Forgiving those who are guilty of offending you, while … [Read more...] about The High Cost of Mercy

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Mercy, Money, Slavery

Cuppa Tea, Anyone?

21 May 2023 By David Trounce

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In his book, The Plague of Plagues, written in 1669, Ralph Venning wrote this paragraph about sin. In general, sin is the worst of evils, the evil of evil and indeed the only evil. Nothing is so evil as sin, nothing is evil but sin. As the sufferings of this present time are not … [Read more...] about Cuppa Tea, Anyone?

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Confession, Evil, Sin

Humble, Yet Hardy

18 May 2023 By David Trounce

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John the Baptist came preaching repentance and baptising those who knew they needed to get right with God. He was unflinching, unbending and unyielding to the expectations of the Scribes and Pharisees. He would rather live in a dungeon than mince around the Palace wearing a … [Read more...] about Humble, Yet Hardy

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Hardy, Hero, Humble

Bearing with One Another

14 May 2023 By David Trounce

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If there's one thing that fruitful Christian mothers do really well, it's to bear with others. To forebear the burdens, sufferings and disruptions of those around them. Especially the members of their own household. Speaking of fruit, Paul writes, But the fruit of the Spirit … [Read more...] about Bearing with One Another

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Forbearance, Mothers, Patience

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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.