Incentive!
Crime doesn’t pay, they say. But “they” may be wrong, if you live in Washington, D.C.
Recently, the D.C. Council voted to approve a bill that includes—guess what?—a proposal to pay residents of ye olde city not to commit crimes.
The provisions of the bill have city officials identifying about 200 people a year who are potential felons, at risk of committing violent crime. Such folks are encouraged to take part in behavior modifying therapy and various other programs
Zone?
Returning home after a vacation is a bit of a let down. Back to the old grind, the old schedule, the old calendar, the old climate (especially if it is cold) …
Jim and Barbara Casey recently decided to do something about it. Returning to frigid Haversham, U.K. (32°F), from balmy Tenerife, Canary Islands (60°F), they brought its time zone back with them!
It’s only an hour in front of GMT, but they realized they enjoyed living ahead of everyone that they decided to live
Genesis 26:34−28:9
Deception to obtain divine blessing, rather than trusting God to secure them, only results in catastrophic fragmentation of the community.
This well known narrative depicts four family members, each in his/her own way manipulating others, engaging in machinations to direct divine blessings into the direction he/she wants.
Isaac’s culpability is clear. His summoning of only one of his two sons, Esau, is a major faux pas, especially since they were twins. And he must have
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:
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.