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Lying!
Study Finds, an independent agency consolidating interesting scientific studies and results, recently reported on an interesting piece of research recently, that sought to compare states in the USA and rank them based on fraud reports and on how many people confessed to lying.
Coming in at #1 was Nevada, America’s most deceitful state, with almost 60,000 fraud reports filed in 2024. Nearly one in five residents admitting they lie often in ye olde state.
But the big surprise
Tough Question: Genesis 22
Here’s an “Answer to a Tough Question” that I did for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary the other day: Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? (On Genesis 22.)
[If you want to dig into the details, go here.]
Long-Term Preaching!
Folks, here’s a recent article published in Southern Seminary’s journal, Southern Equip, discussing long-term preaching: “Preaching for the Long Haul.” (For more details, see my A Manual for Preaching: The Journey from Text to Sermon, Baker, 2019.)
Installation!
Quick note: For those interested in watching a livestream of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Convocation Chapel tomorrow, Tuesday, August 23, at 10:00 am US Eastern Time, make your way to this site.
Your faithful blogger is going to be invited up on stage to sign (with a quill pen, no less!) the Seminary’s 150-year-old doctrinal statement, The Abstract of Principles, as well as to be installed as the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching.
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Expositors Summit
If you are in the Louisville, KY, area on October 26–28, 2021, do plan to attend the Expositors Summit, organized by The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Yup, yours faithfully is speaking (twice) on a couple of real obscure passages from the Bible. Lots of blood and gore, I promise!
More info: see video, below, and go here …
Moving!
Folks, a big announcement:
As of July 1, 2021, I will be on the faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, teaching preaching. After almost a decade-and-a-half teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary, I’m uprooting and moving, lock, stock, and barrel, to ye olde town of Louisville, Kentucky.”
See Southern Seminary’s press release here.
I am grateful for your prayers for the transition and beyond!
Ecclesiological Singleness
A quick to note to alert you of an essay I’ve written: “Ecclesiological Singleness.”
That title is my take on celibacy. More about it in the article.
Comments welcome!
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. 