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25 August 2022 By David Trounce

The Pitfalls of Public Prayer - Sermo Humilis

In Matthew 6:5-8, Jesus saw fit to caution the disciples about the pitfalls of public prayer and he had no problem pointing to a specific example of it in the public prayers of the Pharisees. We, on the other hand, would be hard pressed to find (or admit to), a single instance of … [Read more...] about Prayer

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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.