Stuff!
They say there are 78,000,000 pet dogs in the U.S. About 40% of all U.S. households have a canine.
Add to this the fact that there are over 200,000,000 smartphone users in this country.
Plus, in the last year there have been 30,000,000,000 apps downloaded, just from Apple’s App Store alone.
When you mix all that data together, churn it around a bit, what do you get?
This!
“Pooper,” an app. It summons someone to scoop off your pet pooch’s droppings from wherever. Yup,
Temple!
That was my breakfast view in Athens a couple of months ago: the Acropolis, a rocky outcrop overlooking the city and bearing several ancient temples—the Parthenon (on the left) and the Erechtheion (on the right).
Appropriately built on the highest point of the capital (Ἀκρόπολις, Acropolis, from ἄκρον, akron = “extremity”; and from πόλις, polis = “city”), such temples, found upon “acropolis-es” in many other Greek cities
Articles!
For those interested in some of the esoterics (!) of preaching, here are two recent articles (as downloadable pdfs) published in Dallas Seminary’s journal, Bibliotheca Sacra.
‘‘Pericopal Theology’’ and
‘‘Christiconic Interpretation’’
(Two more articles to follow in subsequent issues of BibSac.)
These articles are derived from the Griffith-Thomas Lectures (2015) delivered at Dallas Seminary. For videos of these, see here.
Other
Watched!
Last week was a pretty dark one in American history.
We live in an age of anxiety, fear, and reactionism. People get shot by police and police get shot by people. The latter event happened here in Dallas.
Things are toxic with all this back-to-back violence. And our leaders seem loathe to (or incapable of) doing anything constructive, or saying anything sensible.
[An appropriate season for a sermon series on Judges, it appears (more about that here).]
But one thing struck
Preaching!
Quick note …
I am preaching at Northwest Bible Church, here in Dallas, on July 10, 17, 24, and 31 (9:00 am and 10:35 am).
Doing Judges, featuring Ehud, Barak, Gideon, and Samson, respectively.
Full of gore, guts, and potty humor.
Should be fun!
[For other speaking events, see here.]
Genesis 30:25−31:16
God sovereignly works to bless his children, as they work responsibly, even in adverse conditions.
A change of mind for Jacob comes with the birth of Joseph (30:25); he desires to return to his homeland. It was probably the entire sequence of events—especially the futile machinations of the female “Jacob,” Rachel, until she surrendered and then was remembered by God—that brought Jacob to his senses. It was time to make some amends; it was time to go home. Later,
Eating!
Park Seo-yeon is known as “The Diva.” She’s solved the problem of eating alone—apparently no fun for her.
So she went ahead and decided to eat dinner with a computer for a “guest.” No, this isn’t some weird affliction that has beset the South Korean lady. She is part of a new cultural phenomenon called “muk-bang” (먹방), literally “eating broadcast”!
In South Korea—one of the most wired and connected of nations in the world—Park and other “muk-bangers”
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.