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Lesser Things

6 May 2021 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Little arms like to wrap themselves around big things. There's the Matchbox car, which is fine, and then there's the combine harvester. There's playing with a doll in a bucket of water, and then there's putting on a wedding dress. We were five, and though our bodies were … [Read more...] about Lesser Things

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Contentment, Godliness, Gratitude

The Feast was Made for Laughter

10 January 2021 By David Trounce 1 Comment

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The hospitality of encouraging words does not always have to be grey or dull. Take communion as but one example of the many feasts we celebrate. What does the Lord's supper look like in your church? Are the faces of the people as stale as the bread sometimes is? Solomon once … [Read more...] about The Feast was Made for Laughter

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Feast, Godliness, Joy

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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.