Cancer?
Reported the Department of Justice (DOJ), recently, with a San Jose byline:
Amanda Christine Riley was sentenced in federal court today to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to solicit donations from individuals to help her pay for cancer treatments she never needed nor received, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Mark H. Pearson.
Self-Confident?
Of course, there’s something to be said for being confident, having a positive mindset, convictions, certainty, and all that.
But for one’s own health? Maybe not. For that humility, it appears, is better. So claimeth researchers from the Hertie School (ouch! that hurts!) in Berlin and University of Vienna in The Journal of Economics in Ageing: ”Health Misperception and Healthcare Utilisation among Older Europeans.”
They looked at data from over 80,000 Europeans aged
Rest?
You know what you need after coming out of two years of a pandemic? Rest.
And gyms are capitalizing on that need. Yes, gyms! Gyms are now offering … rest!
So reported The Wall Street Journal the other day. Gyms are seeing more demand for gentler classes, and they’re expanding their more mellow offerings like yoga and meditation and stuff. And rolling out “recovery” rooms with massage lounge chairs and self-massage gadgets.
Wrote Jen Murphy of WSJ:
The evening workout
Judges 2:6–3:11
Personal experience of God produces unwavering commitment to him and gives him glory.
Judges 2:6–10 is almost identical to Josh 24:28–31, but it weaves the story in its own way for a different theological purpose. Unfortunately, as was seen in Jdg 1:1–2:5, the post-Joshua generation went but did not possess the land for, as 2:10 declares, they did not “know Yahweh, or the deeds which he had done.” And what they did in their abysmal ignorance—and
Living?
What happens when we die is a question folks have been asking for millennia. Scientifically, it is a mystery. But we can conclude one thing: those “near-death experiences” are a thing!
That’s according to “Guidelines and Standards for the Study of Death and Recalled Experiences of Death—A Multidisciplinary Consensus Statement and Proposed Future Directions,” published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, by an interdisciplinary group of
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.