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Rescued!
A rather strange thing happened recently in Japan. A guy was rescued off Mt. Fuji, the tallest mountain in the nation (12,400 feet). And people are mad.
Not because of the rescue, of course. But the fact that it happened … twice. To the same person! In the same week!
According to the Associated Press, a 27-year-old Chinese student trying to ascend Fuji-san developed altitude sickness (what the body suffers due to lack of oxygen at higher altitudes before it has
Heartbeats!
For a long time we thought heartbeats would save our identities. How, you ask?
Cybersecurity experts thought they had deepfake videos all figured out. You see, there are subtle color changes to our skins caused by the pulsation of blood through our vascular system, timed with our heartbeats. But AI wasn’t explicitly programmed to mimic these nuanced changes caused by blood flow, so fake videos would lack these physiological signals.
Deepfakes have become ubiquitous in
Haunted?
Hannah-Ireland Durando, 24, a costume designer and actress from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, woke up one morning, having lost her “zest for life.” Tortured by headaches and struggling with forgetfulness. Particularly unable to recall the lyrics to her favorite Taylor Swift song, “Haunted.”
You and I walk a fragile line,
I have known it all this time;
But I never thought I’d live to see it break,
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Coming soon …
FYI, another tome from the pen of your faithful blogger!
Coming soon … (i.e., should be available for order/purchase in May 2025).
This is essentially a biblical theology of sanctification, setting all that I am doing with preaching and its hermeneutics (interpreting the biblical text for preaching, application, life change) within the larger arena of Christian growth and the development of Christlikeness. Even if you are not all that keen on preaching, this will,
2 Timothy 2:14–26
God’s people, his possession, obtain honor by pursuing righteousness and being beneficial for God, ready for good works, even correcting opponents by clearly and graciously expounding the word.
Dealing with the immediate need to counter false teachers, this passage is an explication of the Christian leader’s character in the face of opposition, particularly with regard to doctrine and grounding in Scripture. Yet there is hope for those apostates, for Timothy is to “remind
Devotional on Psalm 21
Here’s a devotional I did online for my church (Ninth and O Baptist Church: they call it a “Devotionable”) the other day. On Psalm 21.
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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- June 9–10, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
- June 13–14, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Bengaluru, INDIA
- June 16–17, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hyderabad, INDIA
- June 20–21, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Mumbai, INDIA
- June 22, 2025 Open Bible Fellowship Church Andheri, Mumbai, INDIA
- June 29, 2025 Ninth and O Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky
- July 13 and 20, 2025 Northwest Bible Church, Dallas, Texas
- October 5, 2025 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
- January 5–6, 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hong Kong, CHINA
- January 8–10, 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Singapore, SINGAPORE
Past Speaking Engagements
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- April 6, 2025 Ninth and O Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky
- January 15, 2025 Boyce Chapel, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
- January 10–11, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Singapore, SINGAPORE
- January 6–7, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hong Kong, CHINA
- January 5, 2025 Yan Fook Church, Hong Kong, CHINA
- December 2–3, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Bengaluru, INDIA
- December 1, 2024 Grace Bible Fellowship, Bengaluru, INDIA
- November 29–30, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hyderabad, INDIA
- November 26–27, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, New Delhi, INDIA
- October 2–3, 2024 Pastoral Ministries Lectureship, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois
- September 15, 2024 Grace Baptist Church, New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- August 11, 2024 First Baptist Church, Pikeville, Kentucky
- August 4, 2024 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
- July 27, 2024 Houston International Christian Fellowship, Houston, Texas
- July 7 and 14, 2024 Northwest Bible Church, Dallas, Texas
- June 27–28, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hosur, INDIA
- June 24–25, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hyderabad, INDIA
- June 23, 2024 Hyderabad Baptist Church, Hyderabad, INDIA
- June 23, 2024 Grace City Church, Kochi, INDIA
- June 21–22, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Kochi, INDIA
- June 9, 2024 Bayou City Fellowship, Houston, Texas
- May 28–June 1, 2024 Sams Lectureship, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, S. Hamilton, Massachusetts
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.