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Patriarchy

Patriarchy

20 December 2020 By David Trounce

Patriarchy - Sermo Humilis

God is our Father. He is the penultimate Father and He rules the Heavens. Patriarchy simply means “father rule,” and so it follows that every biblical Christian holds to patriarchy. The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church (Ephesians 5:23). God … [Read more...] about Patriarchy

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Fatherhood, Patriarchy, Sons

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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.