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Idols with Appetites

29 December 2022 By David Trounce

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Toward the end of a declaration against Judah’s idolatry, which occupies every hill, mountain and leafy tree, Jeremiah makes this comment: ...the shameful thing has consumed the labour of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. … [Read more...] about Idols with Appetites

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Food, Fruit, Idolatry

He Came to Gladden the Heart

24 September 2020 By David Trounce

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Jesus came eating and drinking and people thought that perhaps He had a demon. He ate with tax collectors and some considered Him to be unclean. He feasted with fishermen, and some thought Him to be an arrogant and uneducated Galillean hack. As God had been with Adam in the … [Read more...] about He Came to Gladden the Heart

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Food, Oil and Wine, Word of Life

Jesus, Table Manners

19 April 2020 By David Trounce

#45 Jesus, Table Manners - The Life and Times of Jesus

Our table manners are a good indicator of what we think is going on when we gather to eat. Humility here translates to humility everywhere else. Charity for the person eating next to us here spills over into charity everywhere else. The direction of this world got underway in … [Read more...] about Jesus, Table Manners

Filed Under: The Life and Times of Jesus Tagged With: Dinner, Evangelism, Food

Food and War

7 November 2019 By David Trounce

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There is very little more discomforting than hunger. It has been used for millennia as a tactic of war and we have all seen the consequences of starvation pictured in the media. A look at the poetry from prisoners of war during WWI and WWII shows just how obsessed these men were … [Read more...] about Food and War

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Food, Love, War

Low-fat Christianity

17 January 2019 By David Trounce

We live in an age of doubters. People who are constantly worried about what a firm belief in the truth might do to their reputation. They are happy to taste the menu but refuse to let the truth go all the way down. Their convictions are more like wine tasting than wine … [Read more...] about Low-fat Christianity

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Faith, Food, Resurrection

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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.