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Evildoers?
DailyMail.com, with J. L. Partners, ran a poll recently about Americans’ opinion about Adolf Hitler.
This evildoer (1889–1945), dictator of Nazi Germany, was one of the worst ones ever. He conducted a reign of terror that killed over six million Jews in the Holocaust and millions of other victims considered by the villain as unworthy of living under the Third Reich. Some historians have put the murder toll at a total of 20 million, not to mention the close-to-50 million
Lethality!
James Bond has more lives than a cat. So it is claimed in “No Time to Die: An In-depth Analysis of James Bond’s Exposure to Infectious Agents,” published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, by scientists from Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
These enterprising researchers (for want of anything better to do, apparently), studied heath risks in all James Bond films
Smiling!
Smile. Laugh. Your life depends on it. So said researchers from Yamagata University, Japan, in “Associations of Frequency of Laughter With Risk of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in a General Population,” in the Journal of Epidemiology recently.
Researchers worked with 17,152 participants aged 40 or younger and tracked how often they laughed over several years and concluded that increasing the frequency of laughter will reduce the risk of cardiovascular
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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):
1 Timothy 6:1–2
The service of believing slaves towards their masters, a benefaction bestowed by the former upon the latter, is paradigmatic of selflessness and godliness in the divine household, as believers serve one another with good works, thus enhancing the reputation of God.
In 6:2, it appears that that situation is of believing slaves working for believing masters; therefore, it seems that 6:1 deals with the case of believing slaves working for unbelieving masters. In the latter
Devotion!
Recently, I answered a couple of questions for a series A Scholar’s Devotion on a blog maintained by a Southern Seminary student. His request:
I ask scholars and seminary professors: 1) how they spend their devotional time so that seminary students (and anyone else, really) can grow in their devotional life and become more enamored by Christ amidst the rigor of seminary academics (or, just the rigor of life); and 2) how they continue to love him with all their mind,
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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
- December 1, 2024 Grace Bible Fellowship, 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.