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Antithesis

June 5, 2022 By David Trounce 1 Comment

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We live in a binary world. Male and female, night and day, heaven and earth, good and evil, beauty and horror. It is this way because God made the world. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:4) Antithesis is the result … [Read more...] about Antithesis

Filed Under: Words that Matter Tagged With: Antithesis, Beauty, Creation

#13 Kinsmen Redeemer – OT Survey

October 3, 2021 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

#13 Kinsmen Redeemer - A Survey of Christ in the Old Testament

The events in Ruth take place during the time of the Judges and Bethlehem is the scene. The book is not a romance, though it is a love story:  A Covenant love story. Bethlehem means bread, and at the time of Ruth, there was a serious lack of it. A Midianite invasion had caused … [Read more...] about #13 Kinsmen Redeemer – OT Survey

Filed Under: Rock of Ages - A Survey of Christ in the Old Testament Tagged With: Beauty, Redeemer, Ruth

Beauty that Saves the World

July 23, 2020 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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In his book, The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky introduces us to a character named Myshkin. Myshkin’s idea of life is to help rather than to harm, to give mercy rather than malice, to forgive again and again. Myshkin takes what is cruel and repulsive in the people and culture around … [Read more...] about Beauty that Saves the World

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Beauty, Holiness, Ugliness

The Son Who Listens ~ Proverbs 1:8

March 12, 2020 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Parents have an obligation to teach their children the wisdom of God and children have an obligation to listen and act on their wisdom. In Proverbs 1:9, the child who heeds his parents' instruction is being made beautiful through wisdom. Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, … [Read more...] about The Son Who Listens ~ Proverbs 1:8

Filed Under: Let the Lady Speak Tagged With: Beauty, Father, Mother

Our Sentimental Rags

February 13, 2020 By David Trounce 1 Comment

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We live in a culture that idolises sentimentality. We enthrone emotion as the standard by which we measure what is true, beautiful and good. In such a state, man filters his world according to how it makes him feel. A statement is judged offensive or acceptable according to his … [Read more...] about Our Sentimental Rags

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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.