News and Notes
Placing Membership
Brad Dickson requested this past Sunday night to place membership
with us at East Gadsden and to work under the oversight of the men
of the congregation. Brad has been worshipping with us for many
months now and working in the audio room. We’re glad to have Brad
with us. His address is 83 Smith Rd. Gadsden , AL 35903 . His
phone number is 492-8265. Please enter this in your directory.
Our Church Library
This week Deana Pendley and Pam Jackson hope to finish up the
reorganization of our library. When you check out a book, please
sign the card in the book and give the card to Deana or Pam. When
you finish with the book, return it to either of them. We
appreciate everyone’s help in keeping our library in good order. We
have a great library. We encourage everyone to make use of it.
Ladies’ Bible Class
The Ladies Bible Class will meet for the last time this year on Dec.
12th. On Wednesday, Dec. 19th the ladies and their husbands will
have a luncheon at the home of Charis Dickson. The class will
resume on January 9th, 2008 with Kim Gott teaching the class.
Adult Progressive Dinner
This Friday, December 14th beginning at 6:00 P.M.
Appetizers at the Blair’s
Main Meal at the Fazekas’
Desserts and “Dirty Santa” at the Bly’s
Sign up sheet is in the foyer
Childhaven Trip
Kerry and Kim Gott and the children in Kim’s Bible class will
deliver gifts purchased for the new mothers and their babies to
Childhaven this Saturday, Dec. 15th. The “Beacons of Light” also
participated in this effort. Thanks to Kerry and Kim, the children
and the Beacons for their part in this good work.
Holiday Meal
We will have our Holiday Meal this Sunday, December 16th after our
morning worship services. Prepare your favorite dishes and enjoy a
time of good food and fellowship together. If you would like to
provide any holiday entertainment after our meal, see Kim Gott.
Third Sunday Night Singing
This Sunday December 16th at 5:00 P.M.
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Graduation Announcements
Auburn University
announces that
Kacie Elizabeth Jackson
is receiving a degree of
Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences
with a minor in Psychology
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Two o’clock in the afternoon
Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum
Auburn, Alabama
Gadsden State Community College
announces that
Kelly Jones
is receiving an Associates Degree
in Office Administration
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
at 7:00 P.M.
at the Ft. McClellan Campus
Note: We will honor our Fall graduates,
Kelly Jones and Kacie Jackson on January 13, 2008 .
Upcoming Event
New Year’s Singing
at Fairview Road church of Christ
Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
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BEWARE THE GOLDEN COMPASS
December 7, 2007 marked the release of a new
Christmas season “family fantasy movie” starring Daniel Craig, Nicole
Kidman, and Dakota Blue Richards. The film, The Golden Compass, is
based on the first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy by British
writer Philip Pullman. The other novels in the series are The Subtle
Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Advertisements show the film to be a
fantasy and adventure film filled with talking animals and a cosmic
battle between good and evil.
Although Pullman says he hates C.
S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, there are many obvious parallels,
as the story begins with Lyra stepping into another world by passing
through a wardrobe. (Lucy passed through a wardrobe to begin the first
novel of the Narnia series, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.)
Pullman’s trilogy is actually an anti-Narnia.
Pullman is viciously anti-God, and anti-church
as well. Claiming to technically be agnostic, he told the U. K.’s Daily
Telegraph,
“But if there is a God, and
he is as the Christians describe him,
then he deserves to be put down and rebelled
against. As you look
back over the history of the Christian church,
it’s a record of tyranny.
How they have the bloody nerve to go on Thought
for the Day and tell
us all to be good when, given the slightest
chance, they’d be hanging
the rest of us and flogging the homosexuals and
persecuting the witches.”
It should come as no surprise to
us that the evil enemy in Pullman’s writings is the church, and the only
way that Lyra and the forces of good can win is to ultimately kill God,
which happens at the end of The Amber Spyglass. Lyra’s alethiometer
(golden compass) does not ultimately lead to moral truth. The movie may
be a good adventure story – but beware where the story ends. “There is
a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)
-Bob Prichard
Oxford church of Christ
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In Our Prayers
Updates: Peggy St. John, Mattie Peace, Dot
Miller, Martha Dowdy and Kevin Edmondson are all sick at home. Gail
Clough was back at services last Sunday after being sick for several
weeks. Keith Dowdy is now back at home. Chris Dowdy was taken to UAB
on Tuesday, Dec. 11 after an accident on his job. He cut off the tips
of two fingers. The doctors were hoping to be successful in repairing
the damage. Melanie Livingston’s dad, Don Watson, is in Gadsden
Regional Room 805. He welcomes visitors. Charlotte Tumlin, sister of
Pam Jackson, is recovering from surgery. Remember all of these in your
prayers.
Shut In: At Home- Frances Wesson, Martha
Phillips, Katie Pendley and Ruby Brown
Coosa Valley Healthcare: Canolia Bone –Rm 208
Meadowood -Walter Thompson -Rm 107
Prayer Requests: Canolia Bone; Katie
Pendley; William & Ruby Brown; Amy Stigers and Anna Sanders and their
families as Robert and Gary are in Iraq; Rodney Lambert, Pat’s father,
needs a lung transplant; Peggy St. John; Martha Phillips; Kevin
Edmondson; Dot Miller; Missy Lambert, sis-in-law of Pat, has cancer;
Matthew Rosenbaum; family of Calvin Grimes; family of Aaron Lothridge;
Susan Easterling, friend of the Bly’s, has lupus; Holli Walden, friend
of Sonya White; Clint Snell, grandfather of Stephanie Bly, has cancer;
Georgia Parnell is not doing well; Malcolm Edge will see a doctor at the
Eye Foundation in Birmingham on Dec. 18th
In the Military- Mack Johnson, William
Gregory, Jared Jacobs, Jeff Brewster, Steven Whitehead, Randy Brown,
Johnny Matherne, Jeff Erwin, Bill McCarver, Stan Gunter, Kevin Latta,
Allen Yancey, Gary Sanders, Robert Stigers, Danny Moss, Josh Jones and
Gary Brown who is a contractor in Iraq
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Happy Birthday
Dec. 24 – Scarlet Mobley
Dec. 24 – Stacy Long
Dec. 25 – Wanda Laney
Dec. 29 – Megan Fazekas
Happy Anniversary
Dec. 24 – William & Ruby Brown
Dec. 29 – Terry & Shelly Patterson
Dec. 29 – Kenneth & Chequeita Densmore
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Last Bulletin for 2007
This will be the last bulletin for this year.
Please check the board in the lobby for weekly assignments for the
next two weeks.
Happy Holidays!
God’s Word
Judges 7:2-7 NKJV
2 And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people who
are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their
hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My
own hand has saved me.'
"Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of
the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and
depart at once from Mount Gilead .' " And twenty-two thousand of the
people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 But the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are
still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them
for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, 'This one
shall go with you,' the same shall go with you; and of whomever I
say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' the same shall not
go."
5 So he brought the people down to the water.
And the LORD said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps from the water with
his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise
everyone who gets down on his knees to drink."
6 And the number of those who lapped, putting
their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest
of the people got down on their knees to drink water.
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Then the LORD said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped I
will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all
the other people go, every man to his place."
Weekly Programs
Radio: Sun. at 8 AM - WAAX/570
With Ronny Johnson
TV: "In Search of the Lord's
Way"
with Mack Lyon
Sunday at 7:30 AM - Channel 11
"Preaching the Gospel" with James
Watkins
Sunday at 7 AM - Channel 11
Jerry Jenkins -
Thursday at 7 PM
Channel 5
Earl Barnett - Sunday at 6 AM
Channels 4 & 9
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