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Deception

Words Fitly Spoken

27 October 2022 By David Trounce 2 Comments

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It's been said that a person's vocabulary is a predictor of their comprehension. In other words, a person with a small vocabulary is less likely to understand what he is reading or hearing than a person with a large vocabulary. Makes sense. Scripture encourages us to have a … [Read more...] about Words Fitly Spoken

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Common Deception

30 June 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Nobody likes to be deceived. In fact, we dislike it so much that we will often refuse to believe we have been deceived. Our talent for being self-deceived is bad, real bad. It's worse than we know. The solution is not to conduct an investigation into our own heart but to look … [Read more...] about Common Deception

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Deception, Faith, Law

The 9th Commandment

13 March 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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The ninth commandment, "You shall not bear false witness", is a call to orient all of life toward what is true. It teaches us to avoid making any statements or participating in any rumour about a colleague, family, friend or neighbour that could result in doing them harm. Like … [Read more...] about The 9th Commandment

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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.