Oral!
Your mouth affects your brain!
Emerging evidence suggests that what goes on in our mouth can affect what goes on in our brain—and may even potentially affect our risk for dementia.
Anita Visser, professor in geriatric dentistry at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands:
People should really be aware that oral health is really important.”
Yes, really! Severe periodontal disease affects about 19 percent of people older than 15, i. e., over 1 billion people
Feet!
It is apparently very difficult for a pair of Air Jordans to make it all the way from the Nike factory to a retail store shelf or to your front porch.
According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, Nike goods have been stolen at almost every step of the supply chain, from distribution centers, rail yards and storage trains to FedEx delivery trucks.
Just a few months ago the LAPD seized at least $3 million worth of Nike products that they say were stolen from a
Painless?
Karl Barth, the theologian, believed that Mozart would be what was playing in heaven:
I even have to confess that, if I ever get to heaven, I would first of all seek out Mozart and only then inquire after Augustine and Thomas, Luther, Calvin ….”
He was wrong, of course. It will be Bach.
In any case, Mozart has his benefits. Even among the newly born, it seems. As they declared in “Music for Pain Relief of Minor Procedures in Term Neonates,” published recently in Pediatric
Rodents!
Want to know the latest tourist craze in New York City? Rat tours. Yup, you read it right. Rat tours!
Tourists are flocking to the Big Apple to check out its exploding rat population, and tour guides are tailoring excursions to introduce them to the city’s most beady-eyed natives—rodents!
Well-known Tik Tok star, Kenny Bollwerk, of “Rat Tok” fame, helps connects tourists with a yen for vermin with rodents:
People are walking by, there’s rats running across people’s
1 Timothy 1:1–11
The people of God, in their handling of Scripture, promote the economy of God (in contrast to false teachers), for the goal of their instruction is love, the manifestation of godliness.
Timothy is Paul’s “genuine child”—a spiritual sonship. By extension, all God’s people, listening in on/reading this correspondence are enjoined to abide by the injunctions of God’s authoritative apostle. After all, all of God’s people are God’s leaders, in some degree,
Fragrance!
Once upon a time, specifically about 3,500 years ago, in ye olde Egypt, lived a noblewoman named Senetnay, a wet nurse to Pharaoh Amenhotep II. She was obviously regarded as a “somebody,” because she was buried in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. In an early 20th-century excavation conducted by Howard Carter of Tutankhamun fame, the jars containing her organs were removed and stored in the Museum August Kestner in Hannover, Germany. Recently, researchers from Germany,
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.