March 23, 2017
1343 Hueytown Road, Hueytown, AL 35023 / 205.491.3771 / Fax: 205.491.3194
Email: [email protected] / 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
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