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Book, Book, Book
Three quick reviews today. —————————— God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible Adam Nicolson This is one difficult book to read, but it is informative. Lent to me by a member at Lebanon Road (with the warning that it was “a rough read”), this book gives a biographical sketch of several of those who played a role in translating the King James Version of the Bible. It is an historical book, focusing on the time in which this great volume was written. Though it is tough to get through, this book really gives one major point: it is amazing, considering the personalities involved, that this book was ever…
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Friday Links Roundup: 10 Elders Edition
Sunday will be an historic day in Lebanon Road’s story. Lord willing, we will install three more elders to our eldership, giving us 10 shepherds. We are anticipating a wonderful day as we hear from each of the new elders. They will each speak for a few minutes about their hopes and dreams for Lebanon Road. Talks like that truly whet our appetite to work even harder in the Kingdom! If you are near Nashville, why not be a part of this very special service? We’ll start at 9AM. On to the links for this week: 1. Steve Higginbotham writes a wonderful response to a former President leaving his religious…
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Ask the Readers: Encouraging Future Preachers
Tomorrow on iPreach, Dale Jenkins and I will be talking about holding preacher training camps. Several of these are held all over the country, and do a great work. (If you’d like to be in on the discussion, join us at 10AM Central on Talkshoe.com and then search for iPreach.) I’d like some help ahead of time, though. Besides preacher training camps, what are some “formal” ways you and your congregation encourage young men to preach? Most of us “informally” encourage by telling the young men they do well when they lead, or simply by encouraging them, but what are some ways you help them in a more concrete way?…
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I Love Church Vans!
Sunday and Monday nights, I got to continue an odd “love” I have. We were at the Area-Wide Gospel Meeting in Paducah and, as we walked up to the Carson Center (a performing arts building), there were lots of church vans in the parking lot. When I see that many church vans, I read the names of every one I see. I saw vans from Fulton, Kentucky; Dexter, Missouri; Paducah; and many other places. Whenever we host something at Lebanon Road–and when we used to host things like our youth rally at 9th Avenue–it was my tradition to walk around the parking lot and look at all the congregation’s vans…
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A Video of Beech Island
Enjoy a 1:50 video of some of the great things that happened in Beech Island last week. This video is in honor and memory of Glenn Nichols, the preacher at Beech Island who was killed in a car accident earlier this year. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21zOSLkVpbc
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Friday Links Roundup: LRYG is Famous Edition
We have a group of folks away this week. They are working in Beech Island, South Carolina, on a mission trip. We support the congregation there and our folks have been doing all sorts of community projects. They will also be conducting a Vacation Bible School tomorrow. Their work has gained some local attention from the media, and they are probably going to return with sunglasses and bodyguards from all their coverage! Two local TV stations have run stories this week about the work. Here is the ABC story (which focuses more on a parallel project) and here is the NBC story (which features nearly our whole group). I’ll be…
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Latest Book Reviews
Since our last book review, I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading. While I always slow down a bit in the summer, there are still four books to pass along my thoughts on. —————————— Jesus Christ: Eternal Sacrifice Betty Burton Choate J.C. Choate Publications, 2000 Our young adult class was recently going through this book, and Leah is a part of that class. She liked what she had read and I decided to read it, too. Choate’s work is motivational, in that she uses scores of Bible verses to share her line of reasoning. In The Eternal Sacrifice, sister Choate tries to show that Christ was not 100% God…
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Our New Blog!
We are glad to be on our new site. We hope you will check back often for spiritual updates as well as pictures of our family. If you’re new to our family, I preach in Nashville at the Lebanon Road church of Christ. Leah is a homemaker and the greatest mother our kids could ever hope for! Mary Carol is our adopted treasure. She is three going on twenty. Turner is 2 and is a wonderful young boy…emphasis on “boy!” We hope to uplift you by our posts and pictures. Enjoy!
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We've Moved!
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