Comfort!
Out here in the Dallas—Fort Worth Metroplex, 140-year-old Texas Christian University (affiliated with the Disciples of Christ denomination) is one of our shining stars. The battle between the Horned Frogs (their football team) and the Mustangs (Southern Methodist University’s football team)—the Battle for the Iron Skillet—is historic. The school boasts such alumni as CBS journalist Bob Schieffer, Texas state senator Wendy Davis of filibuster fame, one or two Rockefellers,
Tower!
A couple of months ago, I was in Dubai to visit relatives, preach some, and sight-see.
One of the main sights to see there is the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. 2722 feet. The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, had taken the honors for almost 4,000 years, until the Lincoln Cathedral in England overtook it in the fourteenth century. The Middle East has taken back the record … for now.
But that’s not the only record held by the Burj Khalifa. It is also the
Timothy Warren: How I Preach
Timothy Warren: And this is How I Preach …
[I am thrilled to present a new series of occasional (once a month?) interviews of those who are considered the movers and shakers in homiletics. How I Preach will feature their answers to questions on a variety of topics, particularly their views and habits of preaching. These answers that should be interesting to all preachers, novices and experts. So here we go with the first installment, and I am proud to present
Fear!
The other day researchers at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta demonstrated something odd. Apparently the smell of fear (or is it the fear of smell—you decide!) can be inherited genetically and be passed down for two generations.
Dr. Kerry Ressler—professor of psychiatry, and recently elected to the prestigious National Institute of Medicine—and his colleagues worked with mice to prove this strange inheritance. Mice were taught to fear the smell of cherry blossom
Clock!
Thankfully, we do not know the date of our death. But what if we could?
Well, there’s something for you, if you wanted to know.
Swedish inventor Fredrik Colting has a Kickstarter campaign for—get this!—a “death watch.” He’s the right man to create this gadget—in his former career he was a gravedigger.
The watch is actually called Tikker. And what it does is count down the seconds left in your life.
Colting thinks “if we are aware of death, and our own expiration,
Mark 14:12−52
Faithfulness in discipleship, emulating Jesus, involves submission to God’s sovereignty, in prayerful dependence upon the Holy Spirit.
“Be alert and pray that you may not come into temptation;
the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 14:37–38
In Mark 13:35, Jesus declared, “Therefore, be on the alert, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming—whether in the evening or midnight or at cockcrow or early in the morning.” These time stamps—“evening,”
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.