Early?
Yup, “they” (whoever “they” might be) were right, it seems. Early birds (and I don’t mean avians) are more religious than the ones who retire late.
So claimeth scientists from the University of Warsaw in “Godless Owls, Devout Larks: Religiosity and Conscientiousness Are Associated with Morning Preference and (Partly) Explain Its Effects on Life Satisfaction,” published this month in PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science).
So, if you want a sign from heaven, wake
Old?
They say you are only as old as you feel. It is not only “they” who say this. But respectable scientists from the University of Greifswald, Germany, affirm this to be the case. They said so in “Gain- but not Loss-Related Self-Perceptions Of Aging Predict Mortality Over A Period Of 23 Years: A Multidimensional Approach,” published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
This study began a long time ago. In 1996, 2,400 participants in the ”German
Thirst!
Ms. Lilliam Ip set out optimistically to Bright, at the base of the Victorian Alps, a large mountain system in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. But this 48-year-old woman failed to check in with relatives five days later, and they raised the alarm.
Rescue authorities scoured the remote, hilly terrain and her car was finally spotted at the end of a dirt road by a police helicopter.
Wodonga Police Station Sgt. Martin Torpey said:
She used great common sense to
Judges 15:1–16:31
Rebellious disdain of one’s divine calling, expressed in uncontrolled lusts and vengeful actions, can lead to destruction.
At some unspecified time in the recent past, Samson, in a rage, had abandoned his wife (14:20). Now he wants sex—“I will go in to my wife”—and so he decides to make amends. Bearing a goat’s kid (like a box of chocolates, I suppose?), Samson proceeds to his wife’s house (15:2) where he is told that she has been given away to one of his
Lower?
“Comparison Between Concentric‑Only, Eccentric‑Only, and Concentric–Eccentric Resistance Training of the Elbow Flexors for Their Effects “n Muscle Strength And Hypertrophy.” How about that? It’s a study published about six months ago in the European Journal of Applied Physiology by a group of researchers from Niigata and Fukushima, in Japan.
What’s with all that, you ask? Here’s the bottom line: You don’t have to lift weights to grow those muscles;
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.