The Champions Spirit
Volume 68, Issue 39
Oct. 4, 2009
What's so great about...
Neighborhood Bible Studies?
Our neighborhood Bible studies will begin with a combined meeting this Tuesday evening in the fellowship room. After that, for the next several weeks, the studies will be held in the homes of various members. Some of these will be one-hour studies focusing on the biblical principles brought out in a clip from the movie Fireproof. Other home studies will focus on the lessons to be gained from the Psalms.
So...what’s so great about Neighborhood Bible studies? They are...
...great opportunities to invite a friend. These meetings are small, in a home setting, and non-threatening. They are great vehicles to introduce a relative, friend, or neighbor to a study of the Bible with other Christians.
...great opportunities to get to know one another better. The number of people in each of the groups will be small enough to allow each to enjoy a deeper level of friendship and fellowship with the others in attendance.
...great opportunities to be reminded of the Bible’s relevance and significance in our everyday life.
...great opportunities for you and yours! Take advantage of these great opportunities, you will grow for it!
-Larry Keele
FAMILY MATTERS...
The members of the church of Christ in Champions want to welcome all of our guests this morning! If you have any questions, or if there is any way in which we can be of help to you, please ask or write your request on the back of your visitor’s card. We are thankful you have come!
Leslie Waddy asked for the prayers of the church in her behalf as she has been struggling with many issues. May the God of heaven give her peace and comfort through these experiences.
The angels of heaven rejoiced Wednesday afternoon as Amanda McClinton was immersed into Christ and again on Wednesday evening as Martyn Shuttleworth was baptized. Amanda is the granddaughter of the Papillons. Martyn was invited to come and study by Heather McDaniel. We pray that Amanda and Martyn will both have a long life of useful service in the Kingdom of our Lord and Master.
Eddie Cloer will be here next Sunday morning to present an update on Truth for Today! We will be given an opportunity to take up a special collection for that great work at that time. How blessed we are to be able to share in this great work for the Kingdom!
Don’t forget the Evangelism seminar October 25-28th! An experienced evangelist, Jerry Tallman, will give us a great opportunity to learn or improve our skills in sharing the Gospel with others through this four day seminar which will begin on Sunday and conclude on Wednesday evening.
Parting Thought: Learn from the clock—it passes time by keeping its hands busy.
HAVE A BLESSED WEEK!
Jeremy's Junction
Announcements
- Sunday, October 4th: Devotional at the building: Paulette Brown and Wes Smith will be the guest speakers.
- Sunday, October 4th: Junior High Girls’ Bible Study at Geurin’s from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m.
- Friday, October 9th: No Fifth Quarter.
- Monday, October 12th: Service Scavenger Hunt: 5-7 p.m.
- Thursday, October 29th through Sunday, November 1st: Harding Homecoming trip. Cost will be about $45 plus money for meals on the way there and back. Sign up on the youth bulletin board
- Friday November 13th and Saturday November 14th: Girl’s Reflecting Glory youth rally for all 6th-12th grade girls. Sign up on youth bulletin board. Cost is $35 for early registration and is due October 11th.
—Jeremy Geurin
John's Jogs
Word Tricks for Lexiophiles
(Lovers of Words)
- A bicycle can’t stand alone because it is two-tired.
- What’s the definition of a will?...It’s a dead giveaway.
- A backward poet writes inverse.
- In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
- She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
- A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
- If you don’t pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
- With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
- Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat minor.
- When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
- The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown Apart
- You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
- Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
- He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
- Every calendar’s days are numbered.
- A lot of money is tainted. ‘Taint yours and ‘taint mine.
- A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
- He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
- A plateau is a high form of flattery.
- The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
- Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
- When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
- Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
- When an actress saw the first strands of gray hair she thought she’d dye.
- Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
- Acupuncture is a jab well done.
- Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
(Susan Capps – Senior News)
Definitions
- Arbitrator (ar’-bi-tray-ter): A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s
- Avoidable (uh-voy’-dul-buhl): What a bullfighter tries to do.
- Baloney (bul-lo’-nee): Where some hemlines fall.
- Bernadette (burn’-a-det) the act of torching a mortgage.
- Burglarize (bur’-gler-ize): What a crook sees with.
- Control (kon-trol’): A short ugly inmate.
- Counterfeiters (kown-ter-fit-ers): Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.
(Susan Capps – in Senior News)
This is more logically understood than many of the religious writings we see today. That’s what happens when you leave the prescribed rules of English, writing or scripture. Stay with the true and tried.
—John Qualls