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#17 Jesus and Growing Old

16 May 2021 By David Trounce

#17 Jesus and Growing Old - Jesus Through all of Life

How do you maintain hope, joy and desire when you are staring down the barrel of old age? What do you do when you have reached the summit of physical and mental fitness? Growing older means moving from either hope to hope or else from hope to despair. The Bible is realistic … [Read more...] about #17 Jesus and Growing Old

Filed Under: Jesus Through all of Life Tagged With: Age, Elderly, Hope

Old and Grey

25 October 2020 By David Trounce

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As we grow older, we need to consider that “how” we grow old is far more important than how “old” we grow. The bible gives us a number of insights into growing old and how we are to live out our days in a house that is in decline. ...even to your old age, I am He, and to grey … [Read more...] about Old and Grey

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Age, Elderly, Wisdom

Bed Blockers

17 March 2020 By David Trounce

Bed Blockers The Elderly - Sermo Humilis

Professor June Andrews, a former Scottish government official thinks that a coronavirus pandemic would be 'quite useful' in killing off hospital bed blockers. Bed blockers being the elderly in our community. Telegraph journalist, Jeremey Warner, says that killing off the … [Read more...] about Bed Blockers

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Charity, Elderly, Morality

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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.