Command!
Last year, a biker riding without a helmet hit his brakes for some reason, lost control of his vehicle, went over the handlebars, hit his head on the pavement, and was taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY, where he was pronounced dead.
Philip A. Contos, 55, of Parish, north of Syracuse, would have survived, State Troopers said, if he had been wearing a Department of Transportation (DOT) approved helmet.
The irony of it all was that Contos was maneuvering
Good?
I’ve seen creepy worms in wounds. In a bad—really bad!—case of leprosy, many years ago, on a farmer who did nothing about his disease. Open wounds with gruesome maggots! Straight out of some horror movie. Very high Yuck! factor, indeed!
But, apparently, they can do you good.
In a recent issue of one of the major journals of my discipline, The Archives of Dermatology, researchers in Caen and Lyon, France, studied 119 patients with a non-healing, sloughy wound
The Pericope in Preaching
“Pericope” refers to a portion of the biblical text that is of manageable size for a given preaching event in the worship gathering of the church. In other words it is a preaching text. It is through pericopes, read and exposited in congregations as fundamental units of Scripture, that the community of God corporately encounters the Bible. Indeed, it is impossible to conceive of a gathering of the faithful that does not implement such a reading and interpretation of
Truth!
You want to be healthy? Eat your fruits and veggies, exercise regularly, … and don’t tell lies!
Anita Kelly, professor of psychology at Notre Dame, presented her “science of honesty” research at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association the other day.
Real?
Friday, with a couple of friends, I went to see “Dark Knight Rises,” Christopher Nolan’s final offering in the Batman trilogy.
And now I’m tired. Yes, tired.
Mid-air hijackings, Batmobile, Batpod, and Bat (his flying thingamajig) chases, chaos galore, havoc aplenty, nihilism and anarchy, violence and killings, nuclear bombs, mushroom clouds, guns, guns and more guns, flying from buildings, escaping from caves, explosions, tanks, collapsing bridges, and every conceivable
Preaching is Spiritual
One of the key elements in my definition of preaching comes at the end: “all in the power of the Holy Spirit.” “All,” i.e., the communication in a worship gathering of Christians, the discernment of the biblical idea by theological exegesis of Scripture, and the application of that idea to the specific body of believers to conform them to the image of Christ for the glory of God. All. Every part of preaching is to be Spirit-directed and Spirit-controlled.
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.