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God Ordains Our Ups and Downs

10 November 2022 By David Trounce

God Ordains Our Ups and Downs - Sermo Humilis

In 1 Samuel 4:12-5:5, we have the account of the capture of the Ark of God by the Philistines. Hophni and Phinehas die in battle and their father, Eli, the high priest, dies when he gets the news (1 Samuel 4:18). The wife of Phinehas, upon hearing the news, also dies giving birth … [Read more...] about God Ordains Our Ups and Downs

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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.