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Incomplete!
Are you sure? Really? That the guy speeding in the other lane is a maniac and doesn’t know how to drive and has no regard for others’ safety? Or that the reptilian-paced driver is an idiot and also doesn’t know how to drive and has no respect for others behind? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ve all done that: we’ve come to conclusions, we’re absolutely sure of them, and we’re unwilling to think otherwise.
Well, we may have to. Say scientists from Johns Hopkins University,
Slain!
A most unfortunate thing happened to Rosalind Walker, 80, some time ago.
In a lawsuit filed by her daughter, Angela Moan, it is stated that Ms. Walker’s Sleep Number bed suddenly moved without warning, and “lowered with such force” that it trapped the poor lady against a wall of her bedroom in Godfrey, Illinois. For two days! She died a month later from the injuries suffered, after being transferred from hospital to rehab center to hospice care.
Says the petition:
She
False!
Smart shoppers do their research. Mostly by searching online for others’ recommendations. But, says The Washington Post, you can’t trust those. Reason: AI (and paid content creators).
Many ‘best-of lists … are filled with sponsored content, affiliate links and generic ‘reviews’ generated by bots or unqualified writers.”
Added Nilay Patel, editor in chief of the Verge, a technology and culture website:
With the growth of search-engine optimization content farms
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2 Timothy 2:1–13
The servants of God, strengthened by God’s grace and entrusting the work of God to faithful people of God, face potential suffering, but seek only to please their faithful God and to further his cause—undistracted, upright, and industrious—thus gaining great eternal rewards.
This passage continues Paul’s appeal to Timothy that he be willing to suffer for God and for the gospel.
What Timothy has “heard” publicly from Paul, “in the presence of many witnesses”
2 Timothy 1:1–18
God’s call on his people involves a faithful, unashamed endurance of inevitable suffering as they undertake their divine commission, empowered graciously by God’s Spirit, confident of his seeing their work through, and anticipating rewards.
A single sentence makes up 1:3–5: Paul begins with his thanks to God in 1:3, but the reason for his gratitude is given only in 1:5. This sentence is bookended by the mention of ancestors: “forefathers” shows up in 1:3, and
1 Timothy 6:13–21
The people of God relentlessly pursue godliness as modeled by Christ, marked by a God-dependent, humble contentment with basic needs, manifesting a richness of generosity that results in an amply rewarded eternity.
The complicated sentence of 6:3–5 is unusually characterized by a cascade of doublets: “if anyone teaches falsely and does not agree with sound words” (6:3); “with sound words … and with the teaching that is according to godliness” (6:2–3); “understands
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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.