Stuck!
You might remember the Spielberg movie, The Terminal (2004), starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones, about a guy from the fictional Eastern European country Krakozhia who arrives in New York only to find that his passport is now null and void because of a military coup back home. Stateless and homeless, Viktor (Hanks) is stuck in JFK for over 9 months.
Well, that was fiction. But another real life stuck-in-the-terminal story has recently emerged.
Roman Trofimov. In
Scream!
What a lot of stuff going on these days. And we’re only a bit more than halfway through the year. Another 23+ weeks left to go! Including a presidential election. Everything—everything!—is abnormal. And we are told that this might be the new normal. Lord, have mercy!
Did you feel like screaming?
Well, I have a bit of good news for you, if you did. Iceland to the rescue!
Not exactly, but close. First you need to make your way to this website.
Time to let go of all your
Refresher!
Another quick note …
Dallas Seminary is organizing a Preaching Refresher (with me as the “refreshment”) on Monday, July 20, 2020, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Central Daylight Time. On Zoom.
I don’t intend to talk that long, of course. Perhaps for half the time, reserving the rest for Q&A. So here’s your chance to “refresh” yourself with some of the new takes on preaching and to clear your doubts.
Registration has a minimal charge,
Yell!
Coaching. Halftime. Pep talks. And the team, down in the first half, comes back to win the game! What a dream, as in Gene Hackman in Hoosiers (1986), Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans (2000), Billy Bob Thornton in Friday Night Lights (2004), etc. Apparently, that’s all it is—a dream.
The reality is that getting angry, yelling, and bringing down the hammer is what works. Or so say researchers from Berkeley in “Leadership in the Locker Room: How the Intensity
Preaching & The Joseph Story
I have had the privilege of having Josiah Boyd in my class when he was a Master of Theology student at Dallas Seminary. He is now working on his Doctor of Ministry degree, while pastoring Oakridge Bible Chapel in Oakville, Ontario, north of the border.
Over the years, we have maintained a blessed friendship, so when he asked to interview me recently, it was a privilege to oblige. Josiah had recently preached through the Joseph Story (Genesis 37–50) and wanted to get my
Years!
There is a standard calculation for arriving at “dog years”: multiply the age of the pooch by 7 and you have the equivalent human age.
Turns out this accounting is flawed. Say Trey Ideker and his colleagues from the Division of Genetics at UCSD and others from the University of Pittsburgh, in “Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging by Conserved Remodeling of the DNA Methylome,” published in Cell Systems.
The wisdom that every year in a dog’s life equates
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.