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Chained to the Things We Love

8 August 2019 By David Trounce

Chained-to-the-Things - We-Love - sermo-humilis

People have some odd ideas about hell. They picture little devils throwing parties that involve torturing individuals. But there will be no party in the lake of fire. A better description might be, “The place where you get everything you ever craved.... without the … [Read more...] about Chained to the Things We Love

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Complaining, Envy, Hell

Lock the Door, Swallow the Key

30 January 2019 By David Trounce

Lock the door and swallow the key- sermo humilis

The perishing of the wicked is no light matter. Hell is what happens when we tell God that we don't want our life to be shaped in His image. It is the final destruction of the slowly decaying image of God in man. When Jesus cried out in Luke 13:34, O Jerusalem, … [Read more...] about Lock the Door, Swallow the Key

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Eternity, Hell, Image

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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.