Millionaire?
Josua Hutagalung, 33, is a coffin maker in Kolang, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
One day in August he had a scare and a very pleasant surprise. He said:
I was working on a coffin near the street in front of my house when I heard a booming sound that made my house shake. It was as if a tree had fallen on us.”
It was no tree. It was a football-sized meteorite. Smashing through the veranda at the edge of his living room.
It was too hot to pick up so my wife dug it out with a hoe
Wordless!
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Thanks to all the kind words expressed below and through other means. They are much appreciated and greatly comforting.
We …
… do not grieve,
as do the rest who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so God will bring with Him
those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13–14, 18
Satisfaction!
This may not be much of a surprise, but more Americans are dissatisfied with life in general than at any time in the last five decades! So said the COVID Response Tracking Study a few months ago, conducted by the University of Chicago: only 14 percent of Americans say they’re very happy, down from 31 percent who in 2018.
The public is less optimistic today about the standard of living improving for the next generation than it has been in the past 25 years. What with shutdowns
Wishes?
Dr. Laeek Khan got taken the other day. The good doctor had recently got back to India from London, and while in Meerut, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, he was approached by a couple of guys. They claimed to be tantriks (sorcerers) and said they had the Aladdin ka chirag (Aladdin’s lamp) for sale. For only $250,000. Only!
BTW, Aladdin’s tale is ATU 561. That is, #561 of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther catalogue of folktales, an essential tool for folklorists,
Ephesians 1:15–23
As the fullness and body of Christ, the church manifests God’s incomparable power against supernatural foes.
This section is essentially a prayer by Paul. He asks that the Ephesians might know three things: the hope to which God has called them, the glorious inheritance that God possesses in them, and the great power of God working for them (Eph 1:18–19). The first two—hope of divine calling and glory of divine inheritance—have already been dealt with in 1:1–14
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.