Immortality!
You’ve got everything. A fancy Ferrari or two. A mansion or more. The personal yacht, helicopter, jet, and spaceship. Dresses and diamonds to your delight. Suits and savings to last forever.
But what’s the use of all of this … if you won’t last forever?
The mind fades. The body faints. The spirit flags. And time takes its toll. You age and you die.
So these folks who have everything—the “ultrarich”— are now looking to crack the last frontier: stalling their
Paige Patterson: How I Preach
Paige Patterson: And this is How I Preach …
[Paige Patterson needs no introduction. He has been on the frontlines of the academy and the church since his seminary days in the 70s. Past-President of The Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, and of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, he is currently President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Paige has also served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Colander!
In some states you can’t even smile when posing for your driver’s license photo. But things are different in ye olde commonwealth of Massachusetts.
You can wear a colander on your head while getting your mug shot. You read right: a colander.
Lindsay Miller cited religious reasons for doing so and the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles complied. (They first refused, but when the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center intervened, the MA
Dish!
They say that it begins when you sink into his arms and after that you’re stuck with your arms in the sink.
That may not be a bad thing after all, if researchers are to be believed. (And better than using your dishwasher, too.)
“Washing Dishes to Wash the Dishes: Brief Instruction in an Informal Mindfulness Practice” is the title of their article in Mindfulness. Authors—from Florida State University and affiliated with the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt
Genesis 22:20−23:20
Mature faith persists even when costly, encountering opposition, suffering exploitation, and enduring little reward in the present.
While on the surface the subject of this chapter, the purchase of a burial plot, sounds rather trivial, its mention elsewhere—in connection with Abraham’s burial (25:9–10), with Jacob’s will (49:29–32) and burial (50:13)—indicates its significance to Israelite history and to what God was doing through Abraham. Here in Genesis 23,
Double?
A strange story hit the news the other day.
Here she was: a 38-year-old successful physician (a dermatologist), blonde, photogenic, married to another doctor (also a dermatologist), mother of three. Well-loved, well-traveled. Enough to induce envy in anyone.
Her online presence (on Facebook) shows her celebrating a birthday in the Turks and Caicos. Another photo has her dressed formally with her husband, to which someone commented: “Wow! What a good-looking couple!”
Punch!
We were born to be violent, saith the good doctors Horns, Jung, and Carrier.
Well, not exactly.
These scientists from the University of Utah determined that human hands evolved to—among other actions—punch!
“In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution,” in the Journal of Experimental Biology, asserts that, compared with other primates, chimps et al., hominins (bipedal apes)
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.