Clothes!
Did you know that if you wear a white coat your ability to pay attention goes up pretty sharply—but only if you believe it belongs to a doctor. If you thought it belonged to a painter, nope, no luck.
So concluded Prof. Adam Galinsky and his team at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, in The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology recently.
A bunch of undergrads were randomly assigned to white-coat or street-clothes groups and tested for attention. The white-coated
Saved!
A few years ago, the Saghin family was getting ready to go to church when 2-year-old Brooke slipped out a back door, fell into a pool, and began to drown.
When Brooke’s mother, Kim, pulled her out, she wasn’t breathing. But the lassie’s 9-year-old brother, Tristan, yelled to his grandmother to call 911 and then—if you can believe it—proceeded to perform CPR on his sister.
(Apparently, watching Black Hawk Down, in a scene of which a character does CPR on
Mark 10:32–52
The true sign of greatness of disciples is their acceptance of Jesus’ mission to follow his model of suffering and service.
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve …
Mark 9:35
This section has the most detailed Passion Prediction in Mark (10:33–34), which is followed by a depiction of the complete incomprehension on the part of Jesus’ disciples about his mission.
James and John already had had a fairly higher standing around Jesus than the
Like!
If you are a Facebook user who posts stuff, you know the feeling.
That rush of whatever in your brain, when you get a “Like!” Someone likes your post, your picture, your current activity, your accomplishment, your dog, your house, your phone, your good looks, your smarts, your car, your toothpaste, ….
TIME reported on a study recently that had unraveled what lies at the bottom of that zing that you get with a “Like!”
Apparently, it’s the reward center in your
Lost?
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
So wrote Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Rings.
We’ve often thought that those who wander in their minds are definitely lost. Those absent-minded types that walk into lampposts or fall into potholes. Those eccentric folks who forget who they are and what they are doing. Those oddballs who aren’t where everyone else is, and are seemingly headed in the wrong direction. Lost.
A few years ago, researchers
Mark 10:13–31
Confident of the abundance of their rewards, disciples give freely of their possessions, humbly depending upon God.
“Sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
Mark 9:35
This section opens with Jesus’ embrace of children (10:13–16). The characteristic of children that enables them to accept everything as a gift is what the disciple should demonstrate: receiving the kingdom with humility acknowledging total
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.