Walk?
Apparently it is dangerous to walk on U.S. roads these days. Pedestrian fatalities roads have increased by more than 50 percent over the last ten years. This, while deaths of people riding in cars, trucks, and other vehicles remained essentially unchanged. So said an analysis from the Governors Highway Safety Association looking at federal and state data.
There were 6,590 pedestrian deaths in 2019, an increase of 5% over those in 2018. This is the highest number of such
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25 FEBRUARY 2020
These are the products of a Doctor of Ministry Webinar conducted by Dallas Theological Seminary: “Look Before You Leap.”
Click on each item below for content …
Video
Handout
Comments/Questions
Several questions were asked by chat, some of which I was able to answer in the live forum. Expanded answers from that event and answers to questions that I couldn’t get to then are written out below …
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Why
Love?
Clive Wynne, founder the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, and author of Dog is Love (an obvious play on “God is love”), makes an interesting case: your dog loves you!
Wynne, an animal psychologist, began studying dogs in the early 2000s. Early on, he believed that to ascribe complex emotions like love to dogs was to commit the sin of anthropomorphism. But he’s since changed his mind.
Now pigeons are smart: they can identify different
Corpse!
A corpse was brought in by a couple of women to a branch office of Old Mutual Insurance Company, somewhere in in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The body in question was that of Sifiso Justice Mhlongo.
The late and bereaved Mr. Mhlongo had funeral plan insurance, but Old Mutual refused to pay out without proof of death.
So Ntombenhle Mhlongo and Thandaza Mtshali took the body of their uncle, the aforementioned Mr. Mhlongo, to the insurance company’s office.
Ms. Mhlongo
Watched!
A West Bloomfield, Michigan, dude, Sean Samitt, 26 claimed to have been the victim of an anti-Semitic stabbing outside his local synagogue, police revealed the other day.
Samitt reported that he was attacked and stabbed in the abdomen by an unknown man in the parking lot at the Temple Kol Ami, where he worked as a cantorial soloist (and music director). He told police that he was confronted about 7:00 p.m. as he was leaving work by a white male in his late 30s to early
Genesis 46:1–47:31
Agents of divine blessing, obediently trusting God for blessing in their own lives, extend God’s blessing to others.
Divine promises—of presence, of return, of greatness of nation, and to be unafraid (46:2–4)—all encourage the patriarch Jacob in his decision to leave Canaan. What is interesting in God’s word of exhortation is that he promises to make Jacob “a great nation there,” in Egypt, in a foreign land (46:3). That would also remind Jacob that this move
Parent!
The other day, drivers on Highway 99 south of Elk Grove in Northern California got a shock.
They saw a young girl in a vehicle holding up a handmade sign that read:
Help me, she’s not my mom!! Help!!”
The concerned motorists called 911.
California Highway Patrol dispatched officers and a K9 unit that performed a “high-risk stop” on the vehicle near 8 Mile Road in Stockton, a release from CHP stated.
Then they found out that it was all just a hoax, concocted by the girl
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.