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The Politics of Porn

19 November 2020 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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There's a reason why the phone in your pocket has unlimited access to every kind of porn imaginable. Tyrants hate virtuous men. Virtuous men are difficult to shackle and chain. What tyrants love are weak and invertebrate men and the easiest way to weaken and chain such men is … [Read more...] about The Politics of Porn

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Porn, Redemption, Slavery

Seed Time and Harvest

15 October 2020 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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As I contemplate the unremarkable fact that the climate changes, or the fungus between my toes, or the soap-dodger who's screaming green murder because some farmer in the Riverina asked if he be allowed to slash some of the weedy rubbish on his privately owned freehold paddocks … [Read more...] about Seed Time and Harvest

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Climate Change, Environment, Redemption

Little Gain Without Some Loss

27 February 2020 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Two of the most common ways we are taught to treasure Jesus above all else in this world is in the way we deal with loss and in the way we handle forgiveness. And the two things go hand in hand. Forgiveness means letting go of some grievance. It means giving up the charge of … [Read more...] about Little Gain Without Some Loss

Filed Under: Just a Thought Tagged With: Gain, Loss, Redemption

7 Weeks before Marriage – Your Redemption

12 March 2019 By David Trounce 2 Comments

7 Weeks Before Marriage - Your Redemption

Any man who gives himself to his wife and thinks that he has done his job has over-estimated himself. He doesn't have everything a woman needs within himself. Such a man is also making a rod for his own back as he will soon discover that she needs far more than what he has to … [Read more...] about 7 Weeks before Marriage – Your Redemption

Filed Under: 8 Weeks Before Marriage Tagged With: Dignity, Marriage, Redemption

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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.