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Scent!
Your scent. (And mine, too). Combined with the perfumes and deodorants we employ, our scent has a great deal of influence in our lives, particularly with those we associate with. Or so affirmeth scientists from Middle Tennessee State University, Sabanci University (Turkey), and Cornell U., in “The Interactive Role of Odor Associations in Friendship Preferences,” published in Scientific Reports.
Of course, friendship decisions stem from a number of personal preferences
Unique?
You thought you were unique? Probably not, they say.
“They,” meaning computer scientists at Columbia University in New York and from SUNY Buffalo. And “they” said so in “Unveiling Intra-person Fingerprint Similarity via Deep Contrastive Learning,” published in Science Advances. Of course, as you can tell, they only claim that different fingers of the same person (“intra-person fingerprints”), thought to be uniquely different, are not so. So …
Battery!
Uh-oh! Phone battery at 38%!
That, apparently, is a magic number, according to a private research organization, Talker Research.
Americans typically start to worry about their phone’s battery when it hits 38%—the ‘panic percentage.’ (This is before any warning signs; iPhone batteries turn red only when they drop below 20%.)”
Yup, this survey has pinpointed exactly when this panic kicks in for Americans.
The surveyors did a nationwide study of 2,000 Americans on how
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Tough Question: Genesis 22
Here’s an “Answer to a Tough Question” that I did for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary the other day: Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? (On Genesis 22.)
[If you want to dig into the details, go here.]
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
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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 4, 2026 Yan Fook Church, Hong Kong, CHINA
- 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.