Baggage!
Lugging your heavy luggage around is a pain, even if it has wheels. If only baggage had feet and could walk with you. Well, they don’t. But now they can follow you around.
Declared Alex Libman, co-founder and CEO of NUA Robotics, an Israeli company:
Any object can be smart and robotic. We want to bring robots into everyday life.”
There have been other attempts to create smart suitcases.
Bluesmart raised over $2 million in crowdfunding for a suitcase than can be tracked
Confessing!
Some sins are bad, much worse than others. According to the Vatican, these involve: assassination attempts on the pope, defiling the Eucharist (the consecrated bread and wine that “become,” in Catholic doctrine, the body and blood of Jesus Christ) by spitting it out or by using it in satanic rituals, “breaking the seal of confession” (i.e., confidentiality), etc. For the longest time (since the twelfth century), those who committed such egregious deeds would had
Erwin Lutzer: How I Preach
Erwin Lutzer: And this is How I Preach …
[Erwin Lutzer is the Senior Pastor of The (legendary) Moody Church and a Dallas Seminary graduate. And an award-winning author, in-demand conference speaker, and radio host on a number of programs …. He has been preaching for the last four decades, so when I ran into Erwin at a conference where we were both speaking, I requested an interview for How I Preach. He graciously consented and so, here’s Erwin Lutzer ….]
Originalist!
Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, died yesterday, after almost three decades on the U.S. Supreme Court. An outsize personality with a trenchant wit, and a passion for the Constitution and its “original” interpretation, he was an intellectual leader both within the Court and without.
Declared Chief Justice Roberts:
Longevity?
Well, you can forget that old dictum about avoiding chocolate as being bad for you. Go ahead and eat chocolate, folks, you will live longer.
Praise the Lord!
Heart (an imprint of the British Medical Journal) published a study last year that found that eating up to 100 grams (about 4 ounces, a quarter pound!) helps lower risk of heart disease and strokes. Wow! A quarter pound of chocolate. That’s 20 Hershey’s kisses!
“Habitual Chocolate Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular
Genesis 26:1−33
God’s blessings are sure, and obviate any need to secure them by retaliating against opposition.
Isaac finds himself in a famine, God tells him to remain where he is, in Gerar (26:1–3), and Isaac and his descendants are also promised blessing and land.
What happens next is odd: In 26:7–11, Isaac passes off his wife, Rebekah, as his sister, fearing for the safety of his own life from the hoi polloi who might seek to appropriate Rebekah. Was this fear justified?
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.