The Champions Spirit
Volume 68, Issue 50
Dec. 20, 2009
FAMILY MATTERS...
Our guests are very special to us! We thank you for choosing to be with us today and pray that the various aspects of our worship together will be a blessing as we seek to grow in the will and Word of our Lord. Come back soon!
We welcome Alaina Rivera and her three daughters: Natasha, Vanessa and Brisa. We are thankful for their choice in making Champions their church home!
Many of our church family will either be traveling or will have loved ones traveling to visit with them over the next two weeks. May this be a season of shared love, gratitude and safety!
This the last bulletin of 2009! Amazing! Where did the year—decade go? It seems like only a short while ago we were being warned about our computers crashing and everything being turned upside down in 2000! Now it is nearly 2010! Seeing that time moves so very rapidly, let’s be sure and use our time wisely in service to our Lord!
2010: The Passionate Pursuit of the Word! Look at the Book, our study for next year, will help us know our Lord’s Word and His will better! It will be a great study!
Parting Thought: While we are excited about it, it’s not 2010 yet! Don’t think that we should just close our eyes to opportunities of these last few days! There is still time to make 2009 memorable!
HAVE A BLESSED WEEK!
Jeremy's Junction
I am ready to party! Thursday night, December 31st, we are going to have a special New Year's Eve party. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew what was going to be happening. We are not going to have our regular services on Wednesday, December 30th. The next night, on New Year’s Eve, we are going to have a special devotional at 7:00 p.m. at the church building. Following this, we are going to move to the fellowship hall for our party. Please bring your favorite cards, games and board games, as well as finger foods to share. This is a great opportunity for people of all ages to get to know each other and find common interests. Let’s all get together and bring in a great New Year!
With each New Year, there comes an age old tradition of making a “New Year’s Resolution.” With this comes a chance to see the New Year as a new beginning and a time where we challenge ourselves to reach new goals. Next year, we are having our special Bible survey class titled “Look at the Book.” We will be studying the entire Bible in 2010! So, it would be a great year to challenge yourself to read through the Bible!
Hope to see you on New Year's Eve! We're going to have a great time! Let's make 2010 a year to remember- a year where we truly lean on the Word of God for support and study it diligently.
Happy Holidays!
—Jeremy Geurin
John's Jogs
1 CORINTHIANS 13
CHRISTMAS VERSION
If I decorate my home in perfectly plaid bows, strands of twinkling light and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family. I’m just another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals, and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another cook.
If I work at a soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home, and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.
If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir’s cantata, but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.
Love stops the cooking to hug the child.
Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the spouse.
Love is kind, though harried and tired.
Love does not envy another’s home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.
Love does not yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way.
Love does not give only to those who are able to give in return, but rejoices in giving to those who can’t.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but giving the gift of love will endure.
(author unknown)
I didn’t write it but I agree with the message.
Here’s another agenda of the secularist. It’s the changing of how we designate the dating of time. Instead of 2009 A.D. (Anno Domini – In the year of the Lord – of the Christian era) to designating it 2009 C. E. (Common Era). Just another way of removing Christ from the public arena.
—John Qualls