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Suffering in Silence

20 January 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Jesus suffered. He suffered like no other man has suffered. When we talk about His suffering, we will often focus on the pain, or the injustice of it, or the reason for it - our justification. But in Isaiah 53:7 the focus of His suffering is on something different. It's on the … [Read more...] about Suffering in Silence

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Atonement, Sorrow, Trivia

Those Down Days

14 January 2021 By David Trounce 1 Comment

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Disaster will strike. Death is highly likely. What to do? One of the things that Scripture teaches us is not to wait until the day of disaster and then try and figure out how to handle it. If we live like that, chances are we will run in the wrong direction. When Lazarus died, … [Read more...] about Those Down Days

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A Good Lament

1 November 2020 By David Trounce 2 Comments

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The world and its religions have no rival to the Psalms. Buddha has no songbook and while the Allah of Islam calls us to remain prostrate and bow low the Psalms teach us to lift our heads, whether in sadness or joy and look to the Lord for help. For the people of God, the … [Read more...] about A Good Lament

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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.