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Cheese!
London’s Metropolitan Police Service said a couple of months ago:
We received a report of the theft of a large quantity of cheese from a manufacturer based in the London borough of Southwark.”
Not a slice of cheese or two, or a cheese-stick or a couple. No $400,000 worth of the good stuff.
Said the cheese purveyor, Neal’s Yard (no not Kraft or some such supermarket type, but a fancy, high-powered, elite store):
Neal’s Yard Dairy, a leading distributor and retailer
Predator!
Australia is known for having a number of shark “incidents” every year. Most victims are what they call “surface recreationists”—those victims atop a body of water through the use of a board or flotation device, engaging in surfing, water skiing, windsurfing, boogie boarding, rafting, or floating on inflatables at the time of attack.
Well, we may be closer to a prevention of such “incidents,” report a group of Australian scientist collaborating with some in
Air!
People have tried selling a lot of strange things: whale carcases, human souls, excreta (aka “poop”), belly button lint (no, I’m not kidding), grocery plastic shopping bags, even used dentures (I gotta write blogs on each one of them).
But how about this item? Air.
Air? Yup, air.
Nope, not just any old, run of the mill, middle of the road, garden variety, par for the course, no great shakes, vanilla air. Oh, no, not at all. This is air from Lake Como, Italy.
Now, the
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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
Theology Issues–2
This is Part 2 of an interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts. (Part 1 can be found here.)
Theology Issues–1
Another interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts.
Part 1 here (Part 2 to follow next month):
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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- September 15, 2024 Grace Baptist Church, New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- October 2–3, 2024 Pastoral Ministries Lectureship, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois
- November 26–27, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, New Delhi, INDIA
- November 29–30, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hyderabad, INDIA
- December 1, 2024 Grace Bible Fellowship, Bengaluru, INDIA
- December 2–3, 2024 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Bengaluru, INDIA
Past Speaking Engagements
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- 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
- March 17, 2024 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
- November 27–December 1, 2023 Lectureship, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, INDIA
- November 26, 2023 Grace Bible Fellowship, Bengaluru, INDIA
- November 24–25, 2023 Preaching Seminar, Bengaluru, INDIA
- November 4–5, 2023 Mobberly Baptist Church, Longview, Texas
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.