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 leaving Sunday afternoon to preach in Murray, Kentucky, at the Glendale Road church of Christ.  I’m looking forward to that engagement, and then we’ll be spending Monday with my family in Paducah.  Monday night, we’ll be going to the Area-Wide Gospel Meeting held in Paducah at the Carson Center.  Dan Winkler is the speaker, and we will enjoy hearing him present God’s Word.

On to the links for this week:

1. If you know me at all, you know I love singing.  Congregational singing is a wonderful thing, but we must do our best at it (just like everything else in our Christian life).  David Courington writes of an interesting account and uses that to make this point in a great way.  Read “I Wanta Sing, Sing, Sing…”.

2. Having just finished summer camp a few weeks ago, I understood the sentiments of Trey Morgan’s post “Taking God for Granted” completely.

3. Our kids spend quite a bit of time outside: playing in the backyard, going to the park with mommy and daddy, and doing other things.  However, far too many kids only use the outside as a way to get to the vehicle.  Is this causing more problems than we might think of?  Albert Mohler explores in a reprint of a classic post.

4. We all make mistakes.  (You might want to read that one again!!!)  However, how do we handlethose mistakes?  Often, that’s what makes or breaks a job, a marriage, or a friendship.  Management Craft posted “10 Ways to Handle Your Mistakes.”  Preachers, you might find some good material here for preaching on repentance.

5. I don’t ride a bike, but the process does provide some good illustrative material.  Seth Godin–the author of Tribesand the #1 personal blogger on the internet–writes a “winning” formula called “Winning on the Uphills.”

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.  We are looking forward to a wonderful Lord’s Day.  If you’re near Nashville, we hope you’ll come by and see us at Lebanon Road at 9AM Sunday!  For our Western Kentucky readers (both of you, mom…dad), we look forward to seeing you, too!

No matter where you are, don’t forget the Lord on His Day!