Revert!
If you thought all McDonald’s outlets (30,000 now in a hundred countries) were the same—golden arches, play pens, commonplace awnings, standard storefront entrances, run-of-the-same-mill façades, and habitual signage, you have another think coming.
Take for instance the establishment in New Hyde Park, NY (see picture). Hardly what one would expect of a McD undertaking. Stately and smart. Sober and subdued. Sane and stylish. (Not adjectives one would casually employ
The Aqedah (Genesis 22)
The Aqedah is the term given to the account of the “sacrifice” of Isaac by Abraham. The word is derived from the Hebrew verb ‘qd which means “to bind”—thus referring to the binding of Isaac at the altar of his sacrifice.
Then they came to the place of which God had told him;
and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood,
and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Genesis 22:9
The account of Abraham’s trial in Genesis
Everyone!
Last week I was in ye olde city of New Orleans, LA, enjoying the collegiality and fellowship of like-minded folks at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, on the campus of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS). Our plenary sessions were held in NOBTS’ Leavell Chapel (pictured).
It was a great time, though your humble blogger (y.h.b.) didn’t particularly enjoy the seafood buffet served for dinner Friday night. I have never been a fan of
Isolation!
Stuck for ideas? Stalled in a project?
Most of us do get stuck and stalled in the beginning or middle or towards the end of endeavors. Now what do I do?
But then have you had this happen to you? You are explaining your difficulty—your “stuckness”—to someone else and, all of a sudden, the solution comes up, either in the other person’s comment or question, or even as you were detailing your problem. It’s like the very act of sharing an issue created the atmosphere
Pericopal Theology
A couple of months ago, I had written about the importance of the pericope in preaching. (By “pericope” I mean the manageable chunk of the biblical text employed in a sermon—i.e., a preaching text.)
And several weeks ago, I had talked about the world in front of the text, God’s ideal world, segments of which are portrayed by individual
Lucky?
Luck /lək/ (noun) ● success or failure apparently brought by chance
Did you know that houses with addresses that have lucky numbers in them sell for more? A study of a British Columbia neighborhood with a significant percentage of Chinese residents showed that house numbers ending in “8” sold at a 2.5% premium. Those ending with an unlucky “4” sold at a 2.2% discount.
(BTW, the Beijing Summer Olympics opened at 08:08:08 on the 8th day of the 8th month of 2008.)
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Gordo!
Last weekend, my nephew, John, and I went on a BBQ hunting mission around Austin, the capital of ye olde state of Texas. More about that another time.
Saturday night, after watching the 1,500,000 Mexican free-tailed bats hightail out of Congress Ave bridge at dusk (and more about that, too, another time), we felt a hankering for something sweet. This, you must remember, after a day of engorging ourselves on brisket all day from various highly rated purveyors of the same.
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.