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Someone to Contend With

24 November 2022 By David Trounce

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Like the early church, the men and women of the reformation are remembered. They are remembered and read today because of what they said and did. To some they were a bright light, an exemplar of holiness. To others a damn nuisance. Either way, they are remembered because, like … [Read more...] about Someone to Contend With

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Conviction, Courage, Love

Dragons

28 August 2022 By David Trounce

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Fairy tales are often closer to gospel truth than many of the things that pass under the banner of the gospel these days. From bumps in the night to melting polar ice caps, children are taught to be either helpless or afraid. Fairy tales, by contrast, teach them to rise and … [Read more...] about Dragons

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Courage, Dragons, Fear

Be Not Like Jelly Men

10 July 2022 By David Trounce

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The year was 1558 and Scotland, which had become increasingly Protestant, found itself being governed by an increasingly tyrannical Roman Catholic Monarchy. Between the people and the Roman Catholic government of Mary I, or Bloody Mary (so-called because of her murderous … [Read more...] about Be Not Like Jelly Men

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Courage, Government, Intercession

A Backbone Made of Magdeburg Steel

7 July 2022 By David Trounce

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When Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a Wittenberg church in 1517, he was nailing himself to a cross. From that time on, the governing authorities of Rome wanted him dead. Gone. What stood in their way was the lesser magistrate. A small number of local … [Read more...] about A Backbone Made of Magdeburg Steel

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Authority, Courage, Magdeburg

Empathy

3 April 2022 By David Trounce

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Empathy is a word that only came into use during the 20th century and means to join yourself to the identity, feeling, problem, trauma or ideology of others. In an amoral culture such as ours, empathy means getting drunk with the drunkard, comforting the sodomite in his … [Read more...] about Empathy

Filed Under: Words that Matter Tagged With: Courage, Empathy, Sympathy

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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.