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The Last Time

20 July 2023 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

The Last Time - Sermo Humilis

There will be a last time. A last time you will ever play a game with your children. A last time you will eat breakfast. A last time you will ever go to bed and sleep. For most people they have already experienced the last time for any number of life's ordinary … [Read more...] about The Last Time

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Death, Gratitude, Life

Pacing the Cage

11 June 2023 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Man is a restless being. He is anxious by nature, as though he were constantly walking three feet away from a cliff. Too frightened to look over the edge, lest it swallow him up, but knowing full well the edge is there: That some terrifying chasm is walking beside him as makes … [Read more...] about Pacing the Cage

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Death, Hope, Reality

Lost and Found

9 April 2023 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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It's the human condition. We are terrified by God, we are terrified by each other, and we are terrified by loneliness. It's the reason Jesus came into this world, and it's the reason we killed Him. It's also the reason we need Him. I read somewhere recently that “If you love … [Read more...] about Lost and Found

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Death, Love, Neighbour

Meditate on These Things

16 February 2023 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Meditation is an ancient practice and an inescapable one. We all meditate. We all ruminate on things. Whether they be fears, friends, family, joys, hopes, dreams, the colour of money, or what Julia Roberts wore at the Oscars. For Christians, the contemplation of God, His … [Read more...] about Meditate on These Things

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Death, Life, Meditation

Your Last Day

30 October 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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  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

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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.