Stud!
A few extra pounds put on during the pandemic? No problem! Want a perfect beach body? Easy solution! Fitness regimen neglected? Fret not!
You can get your muscles online. Yup, online.
Well, it’s not the real thing …
Chinese online bazaars are now selling realistic muscle suits that can make you look ripped without moving a muscle, leaving the sofa, or making your way to the gym.
You can be an insta-stud!
Head to the website Taobao or AliExpress and you can buy a Smitizen
Pop!
Pimple popping is pretty popular.
It has been, even before Dr. Pimple Popper (aka Dr. Sandra Lee), a dermatologist, took it to YouTube, making pimple popping an exercise in medical voyeurism. This enterprising physician also signed on with TLC to have her own TV series, appropriately named Dr. Pimple Popper. The show marked 2018 Christmas with a special episode, “The 12 Pops of Christmas.”
But did you know that the average American woman herself pops a total of 65 pimples
Music!
Music is powerful. All of us have felt it and all of us know it. Especially that ecstatic sensation when we hear our favorite songs.
Apparently, there is an organic element to this feeling. So declares a team of researchers from the Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté in “Cortical Patterns of Pleasurable Musical Chills Revealed by High-Density EEG” published recently in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
The scientists discovered specific electrical activity in the orbitofrontal
Ephesians 3:14–21
Believers, increasingly conformed to Christ in faith by the Spirit, and comprehending, in community, the immensity of Christ’s love, glorify God who dwells in them.
This pericope is the continuation of Ephesians 2:11–22 (after which came the “digression” of 3:1–13). There, Paul had concluded by saying that believers have been recreated as a holy temple, the dwelling of God (2:20–22). Here we find out how they should function as this “temple,” and “holy
Nails!
A few decades ago, they found Caiaphas’s tomb. While workers creating a new water park on the outskirts of Jerusalem were digging, suddenly the ground gave way before them, unearthing a burial cave with a collection of 12 ossuaries— limestone urns used to store the bones of the dead. The coins found in the urns dated them to around 40 AD—2000 years old. One particular ossuary was an elaborate one, ornately decorated with an intricate pattern of rosettes. It obviously
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.