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A Bad Case of the Touchy Feelies

29 June 2023 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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It's a modern trope in our culture that men don't share their feelings and that this is some kind of problem to be overcome. This, of course, is absurd. Men share their feelings all day long. Ask them if they've had a good day. Ask them what they think of John Deere tractors. … [Read more...] about A Bad Case of the Touchy Feelies

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Trust

7 May 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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I once heard the story of a mother who’d been lied to by her 6-year-old son. To make the point that lying is bad news and destroys the joy in relationships, the mum said, “OK, for the next whole week you won’t know whether I’m telling the truth or lying.” The next day, driving … [Read more...] about Trust

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Be Not Blah

2 September 2021 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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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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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.