NewsDay Tuesday: November 7th edition

Hello Mr. Football, meet your new PCA city-wide champions! OK, I just had to gloat a little. That was a blast. I was pretty pumped we were able to knock out both the other teams. We even brought in a ringer (Trey –works at Covenant) but he didn’t play the 2nd game and only caught 1-2 passes. Thank you Vance for putting this together—I know organizing stuff like this can be a whip. For those of you who were not there, we beat Briarwood 13-12 and Oak Mtn. 27-6. Hopefully we can do some more of this. We had a huge team! Anyone have the group pic? My MVP awards go as follows:

King of the Shuttle – Steakley
Annoying Gnat – Justin
The “Bring it if you got it!” Award – Walker
The “Mrs. Consistency” Award – Holly
The “I have a tight grip” Award – Katie Madden
The “folded arms route running” Award (this is harder than you think) – Goodhew
The “which one is that” Award – Heidi and Heather
The “all hands team” Award– Vance
The “keep the puggle quiet” Award – Emily Giffen
The most annoying barking Award– take your pick! Noah, Watson, Star, Zach
The silent assassin – StrOOOOOWWWWWWsssss
The “decoy pitch man” – Brent the Shepherd

I think that’s about all I have awards for. Great time gang. Let’s do it again. Moving on, I read this week in my studies; it is from John Calvin and it hit me between the eyes.

“For, such is the blindness with which we all rush into self-love that each one of us seems to himself to have just cause to be proud of himself and to despise all others in comparison. If God has conferred upon us anything of which we need not repent, relying upon it we immediately lift up our minds, and are not only puffed up but almost burst with pride. The very vices that infest us we take pains to hide from others, while we flatter ourselves with the pretense that they are slight and insignificant, and even sometimes embrace them as virtues. If others manifest the same endowments we admire in ourselves, or even superior ones, we spitefully belittle and revile these gifts in order to avoid yielding place to such persons. If there are any faults in other, not content with noting them severe and sharp reproach, we hatefully exaggerate them.”
~ Calvin’s Institutes – Book III.Ch.VII.Sec.4

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Announcements

1. Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner – Join us Tuesday night, Nov. 14th at the Frese’s (202 Yorkshire) for our 5th annual Deep Fried Turkey Dinner. This is always one of the highlights of the year. Bring a side dish (dessert, app, salad, veggies) to complement the finger lickin’ good t-bird. It all starts at 7 p.m. See you there. Sign up for food is in S.S.

2. X-mas Progressive Dinner – Saturday night, Dec. 16th is our 5th annual Progressive Dinner. The fun begins at 5 p.m. at the church and we’ll make our way to three different homes for each course. Bring a white elephant gift that we’ll do at the dessert home.

3. Serve, Serve, Serve – Now is a great time to get involved with an area of service during the holidays. We desperately need your help with Angel Tree deliveries. Contact the church office if you can lend a hand. 871.7002 Jim Lower is our contact. There are other events as well. (Katrina Relief help – 1st weekend in Dec. Contact is Fred Hendon or Peggy Frese.

4. Home Missions Conference – Mark you calendars for Sunday, November 19th. We’ll be having local ministries that Covenant support share in Sunday School and be preaching the service. There is also a dinner that night for us to learn more about all the ministries that are going on in B’ham and how we can help more.

5. Living in Grace – Just to give you all a heads up. The entire church will be hosting a “Living in Grace” conference January 19-21. I promise you won’t want to miss this. I did this three years ago and it is one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended.

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Prayer Requests

1. We’ve started a prayer journal in the Fuel class. Please let us know if there are things we can lift up in Prayer

2. Leslie Casey – been sick at home. Perhaps Mono…lots of pain and boredom!

3. For God to call us all to repentance in light of the recent goings on’s with the Nat’l Assoc. of Evangelicals

4. Thank God for the Frese’s and the Doyle’s. They are constantly giving of their homes, time and knowledge to our ministry.

2. Please let me know if you have personal requests that you’d like shared with the group.

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Theology 101

The Sin of Pride by Dan Norcini