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Sounds!
Results of a massive study of 272,229 European adults were published this week, “Metabolic Profiles of Nighttime Road Traffic Noise Exposure,” in Environmental Research, by researchers from Finland, Netherlands, UK, and the USA.
Annual average nighttime road traffic noise was linked to the individual residential addresses of all the subjects at the time of blood sampling, using national noise maps. We utilized high-throughput nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics
Parents!
What’s the secret to having a fuller social life with thriving relationships? We might not know all the answers, but there are hints. A new one: your relationship with your parents during your teenage years.
So claim scientists from Columbia University, New York, in “Family Connection in Adolescence and Social Connection in Adulthood,” published recently in JAMA Pediatrics.
A two decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage
Destination?
He thought he was headed from Los Angeles to Managua, Nicaragua, with a layover in Houston. He thought wrong. And ended up in Haneda airport, Tokyo, 8,000 miles (about 12,000 kilometers) off target!
The passenger reportedly realized mid-flight, after about six hours, that he was on the wrong aircraft, when he asked the flight attendant why the trip to Houston was taking so long (should’ve been about 3 hours from LAX to IAH). That’s when the error was discovered. The
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Psalm 3:1–8
Almost in a holy war, God’s people are often in danger of being annihilated by the myriad of their enemies, but their confidence in God is unbounded, their proximity to God unquestionable, and God’s might is unchallengeable, his deliverance inevitable, and his blessing incontrovertible.
Perhaps it is reflection of real life that the beatitude-laden and triumphal opening psalms of the Psalter (Psalms 1–2) are followed by a whole series of laments (Psalms 3–7). Life
Psalm 2:1–12
The refusal of rebelling, conspiring, or opposing rulers anywhere to submit reverentially to divine rule, the scope and extent of which has no bounds, meets with an appropriate response—dismissive, dreadful, and destructive—from God and his personally appointed Son-King with whom he is closely identified.
Psalm 2 is carefully structured with four stanzas of three verses each. Remarkably, there are also four specific references to deity’s representative, once in each
Psalm 1:1–6
The fertile stasis of the righteous—constant, affective intercourse with divine revelation, the outcome of which is fruitfulness—results in the blessing of divine care of their ways; but the futile kinesis of the wicked, the outcome of which is fruitlessness, results in divine judgment, the destruction of their ways.
The Psalter is a book of songs, but Psalm 1 is hardly a representative of that genre. Rather, it is a composition commenting on how life works in God’s
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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. 