Vicarious!
Three guys in Florida are making a career of it. Playing video games. Yup, you heard me right—playing video games. A career. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Blazing a new path online.
Robert Schill, Adam Young, and Brett Borden. These are your new breed of shift workers. Each takes an eight-hour shift. Schill, 26, plops himself on his plush, brown sofa and plays video games from 9:00 to 5:00. Then Young, 29, takes over until 1:00 in the morning, when Borden
Greg Scharf: How I Preach
Greg Scharf: And this is How I Preach …
[Greg Scharf is a good friend, a fellow-member of the Evangelical Homiletics Society for many years, and a teacher of preachers at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. With a wealth of both pastoral experience and teaching preaching behind him, he is a good thinker of all matters homiletical, and serves his students well, mentoring them in the science and art of preaching. Here’s Greg ….]
Greg
Dead?
Dead or alive?
Janina Kolkiewicsz, 91, of Poland, spent the best part of a day in a cold storage of a mortuary. She had been declared dead by her family doctor: “I was sure she was dead,” said Dr. Wieslawa Czyz.
Mortuary staff later noticed movement in the body bag.
Ms. Kolkiewicsz is now back home, complaining of feeling cold. They are warming her up with a bowl of soup and two pancakes.
But the poor lady is clueless about her close brush with the grave. “My aunt has
Moody?
Yup, it’s time to crank up those tearjerkers on your playlists, folks. Visit iTunes, Spotify, whatever, and buy a few of those albums that stimulate the lacrimal gland.
Because—scientists tell us (and they’re always right)—melancholy music can actually lift your spirits.
That sounds pretty counterintuitive, but apparently it is true, according Liila Taruffi and Stefan Koelsch from the Psychology Department of the Freie Universität Berlin, in an article they wrote
Genesis 4:1−26
Man’s pride propagates and perpetuates his sinful rebellion against God, inviting God’s discipline, while God’s grace promises respite from the effects of sin.
Adam and Eve do not have to wait for each other’s death to see God’s judgment of death come to pass—the catastrophic consequence of their rebellion. Before the end of their own lives, they are witness to the slaying of their second son, and the exile of their first away from the presence of God. While
Efficiency?
Are you a hater or a liker? Glass-half-empty kinda person or a glass-full kinda one?
Apparently it can all be attributed to your “dispositional attitude,” either negative (with a strong tendency to dislike things) or positive (with a strong tendency to like things). So saith those in the know, in this case an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Attitudes Without Objects: Evidence for a Dispositional Attitude, Its Measurement, and
Shower!
Aqua Notes sells one of these: waterproof notepads.
The shower has long been held as the best place to spark ideas and creative inspiration. But it’s always been a challenge to remember shower ideas, and writing in water is a struggle. That is until now! AquaNotes® is a waterproof notepad that allows you to record your great ideas while you’re in the shower. It’s so durable you can even write underwater. They’re recyclable, environmentally friendly,
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.