The Champions Spirit
Volume 68, Issue 38
Sept. 27, 2009
First...Dinner and a Movie
Saturday, Oct. 3 - Fireproof Movie
"Never leave your partner behind..."
Dinner: 5-6 p.m.
Movie: 6 p.m.
Free Babysitting
Follow Up with...Small Group Studies
Kickoff
Tuesday, Oct. 6
TNT!
Combined Groups
Fellowship Room
6-8 p.m.
Small Group Studies
Various Locations
Tuesdays, Oct. 13-Nov. 17
7-8 p.m.
(except Oct. 27)
FAMILY MATTERS...
Welcome to the services of the church of Christ in Champions! We are honored with the presence of our guests this morning! Our prayer is that through the time we spend together in study and worship we will all be brought closer to the Lord of Lords and King of Kings!
Sunday, Mike Burgess expressed his desire to “come back home” to Champions. Mike has been recuperating from a near-fatal motorcycle accident and has recently moved back into our area. Welcome back, Mike.
Ladies Bible class has gotten off to a good start! Diane Thurston is teaching on the book of Ephesians. This time for our ladies provides an opportunity for study, fellowship, and service. What a great way to spend a few hours on Wednesday mornings. The class meets in our fellowship room.
OCTOBER EVENTS!
- Next Saturday evening, Oct. 3, we will show the movie, Fireproof, after our meal together. On the following Tuesday evening, at our regularly scheduled Tuesday Night Together (TNT!), we will begin our weekly small group Bible and discussion studies. These programs are designed to strengthen marriage but will also have many other applications as well. These programs provide wonderful opportunities to invite our friends and neighbors to join in with us!
- Jerry Tallman will present an evangelistic seminar at Champions, Oct. 25-28. Jerry is a proven and experienced soul-winner who has held many seminars across the states. Beginning on Sunday, Oct. 25 and going through Wednesday evening, we will be inspired and uplifted as Jerry shares with us proven and effective ways of reaching others with the Gospel. Mark your calendars!
PARTING THOUGHT: He would relate the faults of others to you...will relate yours to them.
HAVE A BLESSED WEEK!
Jeremy's Junction
It is time for the Harding lectureships. This is an event that Aubri and I look forward to all year. We go back to our alma mater and see our old teachers, attend some good classes, visit our college kids, and see my family. Every year, Harding conducts these lectureships by using speakers of various ages to illustrate their points. They have more "youth group training" type of classes for counseling and teaching, as well as "old-school" preaching. They have open forum classes with renown speakers and preachers. In addition they provide CD's of you're the classes and speakers, which really is a great benefit.
It is a great time to learn and get a renewed perspective of how God is working in different parts of the country, and around the world.
Aubri and I are leaving Sunday evening so if you notice we are missing that is where we will be. Please continue to keep us in your prayers that we can come back safely and renewed and ready to work.
Taking advantage of such events to help boost your spiritual IQ is, I believe, essential to someone who seeks to be a thriving Christian. Maybe you can't go to Harding, but I do know that there are some very neat things coming. There is a special Bible study coming in October where we will be using the film "Fireproof" to find biblical illustration to our relationships. Our Sunday morning classes provide Christian education and insight into the Bible. There are Bible studies happening as well as various fellowship activities that can help you grow closer to your fellow Christians.
I invite you to take advantage of any opportunity you have to strengthen your knowledge of the Bible and deepen your relationships with Christians. In doing so, you are serving the Lord and learning how to help those in need that are lacking the knowledge of the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Please continue to pray for us and our ministry.
—Jeremy Geurin
John's Jogs
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
What’s in a name? Well sometimes nothing, then again, sometimes quite a lot. Take Marion’s last name for example: Moon. It’s a simple name, a family name, easy to spell and one that everyone can pronounce. After all it was her family name.
Then why did she have such a time with it? Well, because sometimes people can have too much fun with a name. Like, if Marion was ever daydreaming in school, some smart-aleck would pop off with, “where’s your mind Marion, on the moon?” Or calling her “moon face” or “there goes Marion Moon, a girl not of this world” or a dozen other things. It was not mean spirited, but taken too far.
It didn’t get much better when she got engaged to Ed. Ed was a rocket scientist who, of course, wanted to go to the moon. Marion’s father “the Right Reverend” Moon, thought all this space and rocketry talk was just wild-eyed wonderment and wasn’t keen on his daughter marrying Ed. Ed had been an aide to General Billy Mitchell and was spending his time designing, building and testing rockets with the father of rocketry, Robert Goddard. That didn’t matter much to Marion’s dad, who was very slow in giving his approval of the marriage.
You see Ed was ahead of his time. He did his work before rocketry was little more than a big stick with a blasting cap on the end of it. It wasn’t long until Marion had a baby boy. A boy who would later make good on all the promises and namesake that he was born into; the aviation background, the rocket scientist, even the name that caused his mother so much teasing growing up.
It’s a little known fact that one of the pioneers of aviation, the man who worked with none other than General Billy Mitchell and Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry, married Marion Moon had a son they named Buzz. That’s right...Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step foot on the... Moon. (Reworked - Chaz Allen in Senior News)
I’ve heard many sermons and preached on a couple on the topic of “What’s in a Name.” Of course, that was concerning our insistence on calling the church by Bible names. I remember as a kid we were often referred to as “Campbellites” (I thought it was camelites). Then it was and is “those who think they’re the only ones going to heaven” and “those who think baptism is the only important thing required in salvation.” Of course, none of those are accurate descriptions of our fundamental beliefs.
What we are really saying is that everything we believe and practice is to be Bible-based. I have a hard time understanding how people who claim to be Christians have such a hard time calling themselves “just Christians” and giving their church a name referring to the Lord Himself. After all He is the one who died for the church. It is His body, His bride. It belongs to Him. The “church of Christ” fulfills all those criteria. There is a “Lot in a Name” when the Name is Jesus the Christ. Those who gladly wear His name and follow His instructions will hear “enter thou good and faithful servant.”
—John Qualls