Fat!
The Bible says:
[Jesus] said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.”
Matthew 4:4a
He was/is right. I think butter makes any loaf far more exciting!
Oh, wait, that’s not what Jesus was recommending:
… but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:4b
In any case, what about butter? Good for you? Bad? In between? The debate has raged.
Well, now there’s yet another study out there pontificating on butter. This time with good news
Voice!
Val Kilmer, the actor of numerous films, including Top Gun (Iceman, 1986), Batman (Bruce Wayne, 1995), and Prince of Egypt (Moses, 1998), lost his characteristic raspy voice in 2015 after surgery for throat cancer.
About a year ago, he got it back!
Said the voice immediately recognizable as that of Kilmer, in a YouTube video posted last month:
My voice as I knew it was taken away from me. People around me struggle to understand me when I’m talking.”
Sonantic, a UK-based
Longevity!
I’m not entirely sure why, but we’d all like to live long lives. Longevity is in.
Despite the fact that the Bible says:
And the days of our years—in them are seventy years,
and if in strength, eighty years;
and their pride is [only] toil and harm;
for it has gone by quickly and we fly away.
Psalm 90:10
“Toil and harm.”
But a recent study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress wants to prolong that “toil and harm.”
Well, not exactly. It proposed
Ephesians 4:17–32
Believers, no longer living licentiously, are being divinely renewed into the likeness of God that is manifest as they maintain unity and engage in activities that build up one another.
The chronological sequence of events in Ephesians 4:17–18 appears to be written in reverse. Reordering the series, the progression looks like this: hardness of heart (4:18d) → ignorance (4:18c) → exclusion from the life of God (4:18c) → darkness in understanding (4:18a) → futility
Mortality!
A bad marriage could kill you, they declare. “They” being researchers from Tel Aviv University, who made their affirmation in an article published the other day in Journal of Clinical Medicine, titled “Dissatisfaction with Married Life in Men Is Related to Increased Stroke and All-Cause Mortality.”
In a longitudinal study of 10,000 men in Israel, 30 years of their health data were analyzed. The men were in their 40s when the study began in the 1960s.
Lead author,
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.