Hugs?
The other day, the Associated Press reported on an odd announcement by Mexico’s President,
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He made this strange remark about the crisis caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels, and which is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, responsible for the most drug overdose deaths in the USA.
The guy has called anti-drug policies in the U.S. a failure and proposes a ban in both countries on using fentanyl
Planet?
Last month, Prof. Stephen Kane, an astrophysicist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, published “The Dynamical Consequences of a Super-Earth in the Solar System,” in The Planetary Science Journal. The long and short of it? Thank God there is no planet in between Mars and Jupiter; it could have pushed Earth out of the solar system, wiping out all known life.
There is, according to Kane, a big gap in planetary science
Icon?
Did you ever want to be Jesus? I know, you don’t fancy getting slammed around, spat up, stabbed, and stuck on a cross, bearing the sins of the world. But play along with me, and say, “Yes, I want to be Jesus.”
Well, thanks. And here’s your chance. You can. At least roleplay as Jesus Christ, performing miracles, fighting Satan, dying horrifically on the cross and then somehow getting resurrected and ascending to heaven.
And if you were still interested, I’d recommend
Judges 10:6–12:15
Manipulation of God and the adoption of the world’s practices can lead to tragic loss of blessing.
The passage begins with the longest of all the condemnatory introductions to the judge stories (10:6–18). Yahweh’s rebuke begins with a statement of his delivery of the Israelites from seven nations/people groups (10:11–12). This corresponds in number to the sets of gods Israel was serving (10:6)—seven. Even as the seven defeated enemies point to
Instructor!
Several months ago, a flight instructor and his co-pilot were flying a four-person Piper PA-28. The latter had asked the former to accompany him for safety reasons during windy conditions.
Prior to takeoff, the pair chatted normally while the pilot taxied the craft out to the runway. He said that the instructor’s last words were:
Looks good, there is nothing behind you.”
Yup, last words!
The instructor died inflight after suffering a cardiac arrest and slumped on to 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.