It’s Friday, and time for another blog roundup—where we point out some of the best blog posts from around the Gospel.com community over the last week. Here’s what people are blogging about this week:

• Are you using the internet to mobilize people for your church or ministry? The Internet Ministry Conference blog points out a good post by Mark Beeson.
• Over at The Culture Beat, Alex Wainer is hunting down allusions to Narnia in the popular TV show Lost.
• GetReligion put a post up earlier today about the religion-news angle of the latest development in the Texas FLDS ranch situation.
• James Watkins talks about God’s timing—in particular, the subtle ways that God prepares us to deal with unexpected crises in our lives. He uses a sobering piece of news from his own life as an illustration.
• The Outflow has a good post up exploring a Biblical perspective on worrying.
• Is there something you want to say, but don’t feel you can say at church or in front of other Christians? ThinkChristian links to a simple but provocative question at FlowerDust.net.
• Behind the Books has posted the first several chapters from Andy Crouch’s much-anticipated upcoming book Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. You can download a PDF of the sample chapters or join the book’s Facebook page.
• Andy Unedited has a useful post outlining practical ways to publicize your work through the media.

That’s it for today! Have a great Memorial Day weekend (that is, if you’re in the United States). See you next week!

Mission Network News reports on the success that Gospel For Asia has had in aiding after the Myanmar catastrophe. Read all about it here.

GFA’s good reputation in the country has gained them several privileges. While many international media sources have reported that aid has been diverted, GFA has been assured that theirs will get where it needs to go. They have also been given permission to open any of their 400 churches as medical centers. K.P. Yohannan reports that this is nearly a miracle. The only obstacle will be finding Burmese doctors and nurses since the country has not been allowing any outside teams to cross their borders to work.

Also, a church leader was granted permission to open temporary orphanage to take care of 90 children that came into their care after the cyclone. The children have no families and are entirely alone.

Also, maps.google.com has a map of the flooding and cyclone path. It’s sobering stuff.

Is this the Movie Event of the decade thus far? Well, if it is, we can always remember that The Phantom Menace was the Movie Event of the last decade… right? George Lucas has a funny way of mucking up expectations.

Greg Wright finds Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to be something of a mixed bag. “What’s really enjoyable about the Indiana Jones films,” he says, “is the way in which familiar bits of cultural trinkets are assembled into something that feels rather fresh. Raiders had that in spades; Last Crusade recaptured the magic.” Crystal Skull tries to mine the same vein, with references to dozens of film, including most of Spielberg’s and Lucas’s. But Greg advises that “we also get what’s rather tedious about the franchise. I’m not sure that ‘this film delivers exactly what you’d expect from it’ is the strongest recommendation in the world. Frankly, once Mutt and Indy left the States for the jungles in Crystal Skull, I felt like I’d seen all of this stuff in other Spielberg and Lucas movies before. Still, the film is never boring, always interesting, and knows how to tell a bloated tale (since we must).” And he finds Forbidden Kingdom and Iron Man to be the more original and entertaining films so far this summer. Let the dissenters begin howling.

Also in limited release this week is The Children of Huang Shi, a historical tale set in World War II China. It felt to Jeff Walls as if he were “watching a B-movie version of Lawrence of Arabia.” But that’s not always such a bad thing. The story of one man’s struggle to protect the orphans in his care, adds Jeff, “is a great story that deserves to be told, and The Children of Huang Shi is an adequate, if not great, method of delivering this largely untold tale of a heroic figure.”