Invisibility?
That bit of apparel from the Harry Potter series—the Cloak of Invisibility—would be a good addition to one’s wardrobe, don’t you think? Especially against those pesky beings that trouble one outdoors in the summer—mosquitoes!
Well, that might turn out to be reality, after all. No, not the cloak, but the lack of visibility to those 3,500 species of small flies in the family Culicidae, the scourge of tens of millions all over the world, causing malaria,
Painful!
Recently, OnePoll conducted a survey of 2,000 Americans, on behalf of Axogen, a company that is …
“… focused specifically on the science, development and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair.”
They asked respondents about their daily experience and the impact on their life of dealing with chronic aches and pains.
They found that 37 percent had received a diagnosis for chronic pain at some point, defined as ongoing pain that
Danger!
Last week, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that a cobra was on the loose in Grand Prairie, near Dallas.
Yup, a cobra! A West African banded cobra (Naja savannula).
(And in case you see it: It is brownish black or black dorsally, with a series of 3-8 broad, cream-colored crossbands, each partly divided by a narrow black crossband.)
With “West African” in the beast’s name, you would hope that it would remain in those parts of the world. Why on earth was this snake
Wandering?
Several years ago, Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University, wrote an article in Science: “A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind.”
Unlike other animals, human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them, contemplating events that happened in the past, might happen in the future, or will never happen at all.”
This is actually a remarkable achievement, perhaps unique to humans: they can learn, they can reason,
Ephesians 4:1–16
Selfless and loving exercise of grace-gifts, that leads to peaceful unity, builds up the body to the mature stature of its head, Christ.
In this section, there is an explicit exhortation to unity with a sevenfold declaration of the unifying elements of the faith, in which are present the members of the Trinity (Eph 4:1–6). These seven acclamations of the core unities of the Christian faith (4:4–6) appear to be deliberately crafted to reflect the significance of the
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.