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The Mouth of the Righteous

20 October 2022 By David Trounce

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There's an idea making the rounds these days that being sweet, soft and agreeable somehow makes you good. That the talkative guy who's in touch with his feminine side is somehow virtuous. That the young woman who's agreeable to anything and everything is somehow tolerant and … [Read more...] about The Mouth of the Righteous

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In Higher Hands

18 August 2022 By David Trounce

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There is a kind of busy man, whose busyness makes him almost unapproachable. He uses his busyness as a way of keeping people at a distance. Then there is the man who isn't doing anything in particular but his mind is always racing. Such a man finds it hard to be "in the … [Read more...] about In Higher Hands

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Faith, Healing, Power

Meekness

19 June 2022 By David Trounce

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Jesus did not come to defend a dead men. He did not come to defend the old you. He came to finish the job and put the old man to death once and for all. Jesus defends the raised, the born again, the delivered. Jesus defends the new man. He acquits the guilty by taking the guilt … [Read more...] about Meekness

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The Procession of Power

27 January 2022 By David Trounce

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Jesus Christ died for the atonement and forgiveness of sins. He was raised for our justification. He was exalted for our redemption, ascended into Heaven for our deliverance from the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of Light – whose capital city is the New, Heavenly … [Read more...] about The Procession of Power

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Authority

24 June 2021 By David Trounce

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If you want to know what is in a man, if you want to know what he is really made of, then you put him into the corridors of power. For this, we have no shortage of examples. We imagine that men like Pol Pot or Stalin were exceptions, and we imagine that if we ever got into the … [Read more...] about Authority

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Authority, Power, Service

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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.