March 23, 2017

1343 Hueytown Road, Hueytown, AL 35023 / 205.491.3771 / Fax: 205.491.3194

Email: info@pleasantridgebaptist.org / www.pleasantridgebaptist.org Senior Pastor: Josh Cook

Music Minister: Jonathan Riddle Children’s Minister: Nancy Glover

Education Minister: Ray Glover Student Minister: Wes May

Ministerial Staff

Sunday Schedule:

March 26

Sunday Prayer Walk 8:45 pm

Small Groups 9:00 am

Morning Worship 10:30 am

Evangelism Matters 4:30 pm

Puppets 5:15 pm

Bible Drill/Kid’s Choir 6:00 pm

Business Meeting 6:00 pm

Annie Armstrong: In honor of Anita Moreland & Lucy Dyar by Laverne Stevens

Thank You note from: Doris Fancher

A Note from the Pastor…

One of my favorite books is The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. In a post for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Center for Public Theology, Dr. Owen Strachan offered thirteen demonly suggestions for living the bad life in the 21st century. For the next few weeks we will look at these suggestions. If you want to waste your life here is where you start.

1. Engage in endless political snarkery. Though doing so fails every test of Christian maturity, and you’d never practice this in person, on your social media accounts provide a never-ending stream of sharp-edged comments that A) do nothing to actually settle ideas and B) make your friends and “followers” want to punch a wall.

2. Virtue-signal until you go blue in the face. Continually show us how you’re on the right side of history. You don’t have to tell us why, and you don’t need to allow wisdom to do its work in you. If your favorite cultural or intellectual celebrity says it, it must be right! So: signal to all of us, with maximum public effect, that you’ve got the right stance.

3. Weigh in on really complex issues that you know almost nothing about. Experts schmexperts. All that studying and thinking and intellection is overrated. It’s book knowledge—and Americans devalue nothing more than book knowledge. (You can hear the scorn in the voice even as you read those two words). If you’ve read a few tweets, if your favorite voices say it must be right, then you should feel the strength of 10,000 angels beneath your wings as you pontificate about super-technical matters you could have studied but chose not to due to a Netflix binge or three.

Let’s determine to make our lives count. If you can’t wait until next week to read the next three suggestions, you can read the whole post at www.cpt.mbts.edu. Great things are happening here at PRBC. I can’t wait to worship with you this Sunday.

Dr. Josh Cook

Attendance Small Groups: 237

Morning Worship: 244

Evening Worship: 78

Wednesday Night: 127

Tithes/Offerings March 19: $10,470

2017 Total: $176,881 RFT: $14,900

Annie Armstrong: $7,906

Childcare (3/26)

Brad Abney

Faith Abney

Cheryl Amerson

Farrell Crowe

Lynn Johnson

Praise Pals (3/26)

Morgan LaFoy

Kids in Him (March)

Cheryl Abney

Christina Dargan

Jesus and Me (March)

Shamblin Griffice

Bridget Cook

Security Patrol (3/26)

Jerry O’Dell

Marlin Johnson

Dustin Hawkins

Deacon Hospital Visits

Kenneth Hill (Friday 3/24)

Sam Poole (Saturday 3/25)

Jamey Deadwyler (Sunday 3/26)

Offering boxes are now located near each exit.

Annie Armstrong Goal $7,000

Goal Met!

VBS Training

Tuesday, April 4

6:30 pm

Fellowship Hall

Special Called Business Meeting March 26, 2017 at 6:00 pm Vote on sound system repair

Scholarships Available

Clarissa Smith Wintter, High School

Judson Jones, Ministry

Marietta Phillips, Nursing

Susie Dell Wildes, Missions

Applications MUST be turned

in by April 23

Evangelism Matters Sunday, March 26 at 4:30 pm

Fellowship Hall

Golden Heir’s Musical at Fairfield Highlands

April 2 at 6:00 pm

Adult Choir Musical April 9

6:00 pm