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
Dead?
Dead? Or alive? We don’t know yet.
According to his wife and son, His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order with an estate worth $1.7 million, with properties all over the world—in India, the U.S., the U.K., S. America, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East—died several months ago.
Names!
That’s it folks. I am getting old. Yup, I am. Finally, it has hit me.
This month, I attended two graduations a week apart. My two nephews: John got his master’s degree from Tulane in LA, and Jacob his bachelor’s from Clemson in SC.
Unbelievable.
[Not that they graduated. That wasn’t a surprise at all. But that I am getting old. Actually with gray hair, presbyopia, kidney stones, and cholesterol meds, my approaching AARP-qualifying status is not entirely unexpected!]
So
Walking!
“Give Your Ideas Some Legs” is the title of a provocative paper by Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz, published recently in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
It all began when Oppezzo was an education grad student of Schwartz at Stanford. Apparently they would go for walks on campus to discuss topics related to her dissertation, on creativity.
Said Oppezzo:
And one day I thought: ‘Well, what about this? What about walking and
Walt Kaiser: How I Preach
Walt Kaiser: And this is How I Preach …
[Walt is a giant—in more ways than one! Past President of Gordon-Conwell, he has been involved in every stripe of evangelical scholarship, dispatching his remarks, scripting his papers, responding to questioners, with panache and pizzazz, energy and élan, zest and wit! For the last forty years! I have had the privilege to share podiums with him at meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. For all his acumen and erudition,
Sealed!
The other day, I was at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS), in Louisville, Kentucky.
Nope, sorry to disappoint you folks, I wasn’t there to bet on the Derby. I could get into trouble—a DTS prof betting on horses!
Nope, I was there to lead a day of seminars for students working on their doctorates in preaching. They were using my tome on preaching hermeneutics as one of their textbooks, and so I was called in for an inquisition, Baptist style!
[Actually, I had
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.