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Two Great Evils

22 November 2020 By David Trounce 2 Comments

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Blaise Pascal once said that mankind suffers from two great evils: Pride and lust. Pride, he said, repels us from heaven while lust binds us to earth.1 I think he's right. Pride causes us to kick against the sovereignty of God in heaven while lust causes us to cling to and … [Read more...] about Two Great Evils

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The Madness of Sin

31 October 2019 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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I know a Christian man with a wife and kids. He had the opportunity to work away from home for a while. Before he had even left he had made up his mind to be unfaithful and once he arrived, far away from family and friends he wasted no time hooking up with whatever his heart … [Read more...] about The Madness of Sin

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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.