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Jesus, Hard Words

17 November 2019 By David Trounce 1 Comment

23 Jesus, Hard Words - The Life and Times of Jesus

The Pharisees had a big problem. Their traditions were so intermingled with the law that they could no longer tell the two apart. And so, when Jesus came and re-issued the law, minus their traditions, it looked like blasphemy and hard words. This world is governed by great … [Read more...] about Jesus, Hard Words

Filed Under: The Life and Times of Jesus Tagged With: Law, Teaching, Tenderness

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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.