Book!
OK, another Madrid tip. If you are booklover. Or if you just like the smell of old books.
Or … even if you just like the best churros and chocolate in the world!
Now that needs explanation.
Chocolatería San Ginés, open 24 hours, every day, has been operating in a house since 1894. You can go there for coffee and cakes, but what you really want is churros and hot chocolate. The churros are doughnut-like fried things, with crispy, ridged surfaces and a soft core, ready
Depraved!
The Valle de los Caídos (“Valley of the Fallen”) is located in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 40 miles northwest of Madrid, and covers about 3,500 acres. It comprises a Catholic basilica and a burial place for the 40,000 who died during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The most striking part of the whole construction is the 500-foot high cross on a granite outcrop over the basilica; the cross is visible for miles around, the tallest
Hershael York: How I Preach
Hershael York: And this is How I Preach …
[I’m happy to present Hershael on How I Preach. A fellow-member of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, he holds up the fort of preaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. As you will see, he’s one cool guy. I’ve enjoyed being around him, most recently teaching a PhD class at Southern last month. Enjoy his wisdom!]
Hershael W. York
Victor and
Sweets!
It’s a clandestine operation. Located in Madrid. In a convent! Yup, the Monasterio del Corpus Christi. A secret undertaking. Sweets! They make and sell dulces (pronounced with the cute Castilian lisp, of course: “dool-thays”).
You can find this cloak-and-dagger operation on the Plaza del Conde de Miranda, 3, in Old Madrid.
The convent building is a 17th century structure and the nuns have been there since 1605 (not the same individuals).
Well, they need support to keep
Flesh!
Two Sundays ago, I preached at Immanuel Baptist Church in Madrid, Spain. And then after lunch, I took in a bullfight. Yup, I did. At the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas! A bullfight!
A couple of days before my visit, of the six bullfights that night, the last three had to be canceled, because the bulls in the first three fights managed to gore the three matadors available. No more left. Fights called off. For the first time in 35 years.
(No, the three fighters weren’t injured
Mark 15:40−16:8
Disciples restored by God’s grace continue to be faithful to Jesus, ready to undertake another round of the journey of discipleship with Jesus.
“But go, tell His disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.’”
And going out, they [the women] fled from the tomb, for trembling and terror had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Mark 16:7–8
This final portion of Mark functions
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.