Friday Links Roundup: Timeline Edition
Our graduation banquet at Lebanon Road will follow our worship service on Sunday night. Lebanon Road does a great job honoring our seniors, as we have a video, banquet, and gifts, and all are done in a very special way.
My “contribution” to the night is a brief PowerPoint presentation. I study the year in which the graduates were born and find out the historical events and pop culture moments that “defined” that year. Then, I put together a PowerPoint presentation of pictures and descriptions from that year. Since I majored in history in college, this is a lot of fun. Our older folks really seem to like it, as they can seek how the world has changed in the 18 years since these graduates were born.
Maybe you can use that idea for a future event.
On to the links for this week:
1. How do we get people to show up to events sponsored by our congregations? Matt Dabbs shares the oldest “trick” in the book: “The Andrew Model.”
2. Our friends at the Mount Juliet church of Christ are doing a great job in helping with relief for the Nashville flood. Jonathan Pettus put together this website, complete with a great video, introducing the work. It’s worth your time to watch this 4 minute video. “Give a Hand Up” here.
3. American society seems to be quickly drawing more and more from Eastern religions. While there are countless differences between these religions and Christianity, the Desiring God blog shares just one that I found fascinating. Enjoy “Jesus & the Buddha on Happiness.”
4. John Gaines, on his new blog, shares an interesting comparison between AA meetings and when the Church meets. (Welcome to the blog roll, John!)
5. Tim Pyles shares with us a great story from his past, and makes a wonderful comparison with how we need direction in our lives. You will love “Directions, Please!”
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We hope you have a wonderful weekend. We are going to my sister’s house for her birthday this weekend. It’s always good to have a little family time!
No matter where you are, make sure you don’t forget the Lord on His Day.
4 Comments
brian
dee brown was awesome
Scott McCown
Adam,
I like the idea of a powerpoint covering the year the students were born. I think I will get one of members to do that for next year. They are a History teacher . . .
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Tim Pyles
Adam,
Thanks for the shout out on “Directions, Please!” I agree with Scott that showing highlights from the year of the graduates’ birth is a great idea. I’m going to recommend it to our youth minister for next year. Enjoyed being on iPreach this morning with you and Dale. Thanks very much for the invitation. Hope the insights were encouraging to others. God bless!