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Travel!
Forget the staycation. Get a doctor’s prescription for a week in, say, Greece. And go!
Essayist, Heidi Mitchell, recently declared in the Wall Street Journal:
Research reveals that travel can build stress resilience, sharpen cognitive health and ward off depression far better than staying home. Apparently it has got to do with exposing the brain to new experiencing forcing greater mental engagement than do those usual routines at home.”
She explained:
At home, the brain
The critters in your bowels could make you psycho saith researchers from the University of Porto, Portugal, and the University of Oxford, U.K., in “Gut and Oral Microbiota Composition Is Associated with Psychopathic Personality,” set for publication—but not yet peer-reviewed—in Translational Psychiatry.
It is bound to be controversial, but the authors claim to have discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the gut and psychopathic behavior—a
Lotto!
Seconds can cost you money. In this case, seven seconds cost Joel Ifergan $13.5 million Canadian (about $9.5 million US).
Scooping millions on the lottery would be a life-changing event for most people. Ifergan, likewise, expected that to be the case. But, alas, the guy never saw a penny of the payout.
One night several years ago, he went into a convenience store in Quebec, Canada, shortly before the 9:00 pm deadline, to buy tickets that evening’s Lotto Super 7 draw. The
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Another Interview
Here is an interview that aired on Right Theology Forum in India a few months ago ….
Psalm 6:1–10
Stricken with frailty and debility, terrified by impending mortality, dissolved by grief, and assailed by opportunists and opponents, the child of God makes bold to beseech God in persistent prayer for the gracious intervention of his lovingkindness, with the confidence that God will hear and take action.
In Psalm 6, there is evidence of divine wrath (“anger,” “rebuke, “fury,” and “chasten” in 6:1), of physical infirmity (“frail,” “heal me,” and “bones”
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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- August 2, 2026 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
- October 6–7, 2026 Nathan Maier Lectures, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas
- October 18, 2026 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
- November 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hyderabad, INDIA
- November 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Chennai, INDIA
- January 2027 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hong Kong, CHINA SAR
- January 2027 Yan Fook Church, Hong Kong, CHINA SAR
Past Speaking Engagements
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- June 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Chennai, INDIA
- June 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hyderabad, INDIA
- June 2026 Baptist Church Hyderabad, Hyderabad, INDIA
- June 2026 New Life Baptist Church, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
- June 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
- May 20, 2026 Boyce Chapel, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
- May 18–19, 2026 Shepherd Academy, Indianapolis, Indiana
- February 1 and April 19, 2026 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
- January 8–10, 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Singapore, SINGAPORE
- January 5–6, 2026 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Hong Kong, CHINA SAR
- January 4, 2026 Yan Fook Church, Hong Kong, CHINA SAR
- November 28–29, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, New Delhi, INDIA
- November 24–25, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Guwahati, INDIA
- November 21–22, 2025 CliniX Preaching Seminar, Chennai, INDIA
- October 23, 2025 Alumni Memorial Chapel, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
- October 5, 2025 Grace Chapel, Englewood, Colorado
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. 