Neighbor!
They are often bothersome. Neighbors. Loud noises. Wild partying. Crazy pets. And all manner of other inconsiderate activities directed against you and the rest of those on their block.
Maybe you’ve felt like moving. Or you’ve been praying they will move. Your blood pressure suffers. Your adrenaline is wasted. And you think you’ll die sooner because of their antics.
Well, it seems there’s a connection between your neighbor and your heart. At least that’s what a
Shoulder!
Walter Isaacson wrote an article for TIME recently. Mr. Isaacson, who worked for the magazine once, as its managing editor, and as CEO fro CNN, is now president of Aspen Institute, a non-partisan thinktank in Washington, DC. He is the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs (2011), as well as biographies of Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Henry Kissinger.
Mr. Isaacson’s recent article is about your shoulder. Yup, your shoulder. And how someone is looking over it. Over your shoulder.
Call!
Trust a Texas mom to take action. Sharon Standifird, of Houston, and a military vet, was, like any concerned mother, mad.
Once again, she called. No reply. And again, she texted. No reply.
Her teenager, Bradley, was not answering her calls or texts.
She was mad!
(Not unusual. There are a lot of mad parents out there, I’m told, who are in the same predicament, stuck with unresponsive teenagers.)
So she got to work. Seriously. Said Standifird:
We need to develop an app that
Robert Smith: How I Preach
Robert Smith: And this is How I Preach …
[It is a pleasure to highlight Robert Smith, an acclaimed preacher in evangelicalism today, on How I Preach. We have connected off and on at meetings of the Evangelical Homiletics Society meetings, and I’ve made it a priority to listen to him whenever I get the chance. His wealth of experience brings insights that are heartfelt and stimulating. Here’s Robert ….]
Robert Smith, Jr.
Vibration!
Apparently seeing is hearing!
All you need is a bag of potato chips, preferably empty in your room. Someone can hear you, just by looking at said bag of said sliced and fried goods.
Well, not exactly. But researchers at MIT came close.
You see, sound is a mechanical wave that results from back and forth vibrations of the media through which it moves (air, water, etc.), creating compressions and rarefactions, like ripples in water when you drop a pebble. And when these c’s
Solitude!
Everyone says they crave a moment of solitude. “Leave me alone,” they beseech.
But a study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Harvard showed, in findings published in Science, that if you do leave them alone, they don’t like it.
One scientist commented:
I was surprised that people find themselves such bad company. It seems that the average person doesn’t seem to be capable of generating a sufficiently interesting train of thought to prevent them from
Genesis: Introduction
This is the first in a series of posts on each pericope of Genesis. This will essentially be a distillation of what is in my commentary (Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers; more on the book, and a free chapter download, here). Of course, the book contains far more detail than can be reproduced
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.