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The Real You

18 December 2022 By David Trounce

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Someone once asked me, "Are you willing to be fully known?" Being out and about with company in public and feeling like I had to give a swift answer, I said yes. What I meant to say was, "Absolutely not!" If he had asked, "Do you want people to know the real you?" my answer might … [Read more...] about The Real You

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Be Not Blah

2 September 2021 By David Trounce

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When Jesus flipped the conversation in Matthew 5:13-16 from, "You are the salt, your are the light," to, "I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfil it" in Matthew 5:17-20, He was not changing the subject. The subject was our presence in this world as salt and light. The … [Read more...] about Be Not Blah

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Jesus, Salt, Light and Law

10 November 2019 By David Trounce

22 Jesus, Salt, Light and Law - The Life and Times of Jesus

A Disciple is one who is, and is becoming, the beatitude man or woman. Seeing nothing in himself worth defending, he has quit trying to build his own reputation as righteous and instead he is in pursuit of the righteousness that comes from God. He recognises this same emptiness … [Read more...] about Jesus, Salt, Light and Law

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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.