Deerfoot Church of Christ 1 27 2019

1. January 27, 2019
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WELCOME TO THE
DEERFOOT
CONGREGATION
We want to extend a warm wel-
come to any guests that have come
our way today. We hope that you
enjoy our worship. If you have
any thoughts or questions about
any part of our services, feel free
to contact the elders at:
elders@deerfootcoc.com
CHURCH INFORMATION
5348 Old Springville Road
Pinson, AL 35126
205-833-1400
www.deerfootcoc.com
office@deerfootcoc.com
SERVICE TIMES
Sundays:
Worship 8:00 AM
Bible Class 9:30 AM
Worship 10:30 AM
Worship 5:00 PM
Wednesdays:
7:00 PM
SHEPHERDS
John Gallagher
Rick Glass
Sol Godwin
Skip McCurry
Doug Scruggs
Darnell Self
MINISTERS
Richard Harp
Tim Shoemaker
Johnathan Johnson
…BearingWithOneAnotherinLove
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10:30AMService
Welcome
951Majesty
111ComeWeThatLovetheLord
660ThereisaHabitation
OpeningPrayer
GeraldWilson
HowDeeptheFather’sLove
LordSupper/Offering
AncelNorris
242HowBeautifulHeavenMustBe
694ToCanaan’sLandI’monMyWay
ScriptureReading
LarryLocklear
Sermon
538PreparetoMeetThyGod
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5:00PMService
OpeningPrayer
JimTimmerman
Lord’sSupper/Offering
BobKeith
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WEBSITE
deerfootcoc.com
office@deerfootcoc.com
205-833-1400
8:00AMService
Welcome
40BeWithMeLord
122DearLordandFatherof
Mankind
OpeningPrayer
DerrellPepper
HowDeeptheFather’sLove
ForUs
LordSupper/Offering
PaulWindham
761WhereHeLeads,I’llFollow
22AlltheWayMySaviorLeads
Me
711TrueHearted,WholeHearted
ScriptureReading
KennyRachal
Sermon
924IamMinenoMore
BaptismalGarmentsfor
February
KayCarver
ElizabethCobb
There is a reminder in the rain; each drop represents a potential flood.
My wife and I lived in Scotland where the average annual rain fall is more than
4 times than that of Seattle. While living there, we saw rain most days. We saw
it do so in some unique ways: down, up, and sideways.
In fact, we ditched the umbrella because the wind often turned it inside
out, rendering it useless. We experienced liquid sunshine as freezing, misting
or bucketing. We literally had a lifetime of the stuff in our 3-year stay.
I frequently found time to ponder and muse about my feelings for pre-
cipitation, especially while caught in it. Rain feels better when you think of it
as thawed snowflakes. It is a natural equalizer, as rain is no respecter of per-
sons. From the richest man on Wall Street, to the homeless man beside a wall
on a street, all will get caught in the rain. This is a beautiful reminder every
day that man is intrinsically no better and no worse than his neighbor. We are
all in the same boat simply floating on raindrops that are holding hands. Rain
is shown as a great equalizer in the scriptures:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and
hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he
makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and
on the unjust (Matthew 5:43-45). The first time we understand that God sent
the rain, it was because of the unjust. God’s patience waited in the days of
Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons,
were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now
saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a
good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into
heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers
having been subjected to him (1 Peter 3:20-22). God decided to cleanse the
earth from sin through a flood. He chooses to save us from sin today through
the saving waters of baptism (v.21). Salvation is obviously not the water alone,
just like the water did not save Noah alone. His obedience in building the ark
and the water saved him from the surrounding sin. Today there are those who
are just and unjust and every knee will bow to the sender of the rain. May we
think of this as we go out into the elements this week. May we strive to be an
example to the just and the unjust.
There is a reminder in the rain.
A note from the Harp
EldersDownFront
8:00AMDarnellSelf
10:30AMSkipMcCurry
5:00PMDougScruggs

2. Weekly Purpose:
$15,618.00
Contribution
$ 16,391.00
Contribution YTD:
$56,946.00
Purpose YTD:
$46,854.00
Average Weekly YTD:
$20,277.00
Mission Sunday:
$83,152.00
Week 3
Prayers
Stephanie Theoret
Vera Bonner
Nancy Clements
Jean Dickerson
Graydena Dillbeck
Ron Fields
Marion George
Kim Green
Roy Hayes
Jim Holcomb
Randy Johnson
Christi Key
Lucille Large
Frances Love
Glenn May
Melba Mills
June Moore
Bobbie Naish
Ruby Norris
Lori Parker
Anne Powell
Pat Robertson
Donna Shoemaker
George Shoemaker
Buddy Summers
Gloria Summers
Melvin Thomas
Nell Thomas
Barbara Whisenhunt
Billy White
Maxine Wilson
Friends & Family
Pauline Fields (Mother of Ron Fields)
Suzan Carver (Daughter of Kay Carver)
Phyllis Blazer (Friend of the Fields)
Vada Lilja (Mother of Janice VanHorn)
George Coffel (works with prison minis-
try)
Laura Jenkins (Wife of Jeff Jenkins)
Sandy Jenkins (Cousin of Linda Carter &
Patsy O’ Rourke)
Yvonne O’Brien (Mother of Connie
Scruggs)
Charlie Wagner (Uncle of Connie
Scruggs)
Jalen Burns (Son of Sheita Bitten)
Sonya O’Rourke (Sis-in-law of Pat
O’Rourke)
Martha Bowen (Mother of Karen Clayton
& Katie Skelton)
Jim Malone (Brother of Terry Malone)
Margie Knight (Adkinson’s Cousin)
Shirley Family (Friends of Montgomerys)
Jennifer Cather (Daughter of Dangars)
Melody Belle (Friend of Robin Spitzley)
Greg Price (Cousin of Rhonda Hodges)
Ryan Montgomery (Son of Donna
Dickerson)
Bonner Family (For strength)
Brianna Bulger (Sue Adam’s niece)
Dennis Zak (Charlie Chaney’s Bro-in-
Law)
Jerry Shea (Charlie Chaney’s nephew)
Tommy Shea (Charlie Chaney’s Bro-in-
law)
Peggy Chaney (Sis-in-law of Charlie
Chaney)
Betty Trull (Sister of Sandra Singer &
Sue Rawls)
Rachelle Taylor (Grand daughter -in-law of
Mona Jenkins)
Lucas Adkinson (Grandson of Billie & Mark
Adkinson)
Leroy & Jean Owens (Parents of Jill Wil-
liams)
Jean Smith (Lisa Powell’s Mother)
Our prayer list is updated monthly.
833-1400.
Our Honored Guests 1-20-2018
In Town: Riku Gallagher, Vallarie Pepper Tate
Out of Town: Richard & Amanda Bales
PANTRY ITEMS:
Canned Pasta
Hospital / Rehab List
Mike Godwin– Meadow View Nursing Center
Visitors Welcome
Billy White –Moved back to VA Veterans home
Marilyn Glass– surgery on Feb. 12
Tim Shoemaker
ATTENDANCE FOR JANUARY 20, 2018
AM 422 PM 158
Events for the Youth
Area Wide Singing
Deerfoot Church of Christ
February 1
Bring a friend
Christian Ethics – The Problem of Drinking
In our last article we ended looking at some of the
warnings in the Bible about the dangers of drinking. One
other passage I want all to consider is Hosea 4:11 where
Hosea warns that alcohol can take away our understand-
ing. “Wine and new wine take away the understand-
ing” (RSV). But the dangers of alcohol are not just in
what it can do to the physical body as bad as that is. The
real danger is what alcohol can do to our souls! Those
who are practicing alcoholics cannot enter into the king-
dom of God. Paul, in writing to the churches in Corinth
and in Galatia warned of this danger stating that neither
“thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor.
6:10), and “envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and
the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told
you in time past, that those who practice such things will
not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:21).
In today’s world where drinking is so prevalently
abused, these warnings from the Bible should take on
added force. Surely the only defendable Christian posi-
tion is that of total abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
But I know that there will always be people who will ob-
ject to this idea of not drinking any alcoholic beverages. I
know that many people have used various verses from
the Bible to try to “prove” that drinking is alright, and I
want to consider some of them now.
Jesus Turned Water into Wine
This happened at a wedding feast in Cana of Gali-
lee and it was the first miracle that Jesus did. He had
commanded that six water pots (that were used for the
act of purifying) be filled to the brim with water. When this
was done He commanded that some of the contents be
drawn out and given to the ruler of the feast. After drink-
ing it the ruler proclaimed that it was the best wine! A
Catholic in commenting on this passage, said, “Jesus
was the bartender for the wedding feast in Cana.” How-
ever, there is no evidence that this was an alcoholic drink
that Jesus had created. The Greek word that is trans-
lated as “wine” is oinos. This word was used to refer to
both the alcoholic drink and to grape juice. The fact that
we today use the word “wine” to refer to an alcoholic
drink does not mean that the Jews did the same. We
cannot impose our definitions upon them. Words may
change in their meanings. In the King James Version of 1
Thess. 4:15 Paul said, “For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which
are asleep.” The English word “prevent” in this verse did
not mean then what it means today. Today it means “to
keep from happening.” In the English of 1611 it meant
“come before, or precede.” The word wine was used in
Isaiah 65:8 of the juice “while it is still in the cluster.”
Area Wide Singing
February 1, 2019
7 PM
Deerfoot Church of Christ
Please invite your friends and neighbors.
Share on facebook and all your social
media. Please bring enough finger foods
and drinks for your friends and family.
Bibles for Belize
We are in need of new
Bibles for Belize. Large print are the most
requested. Most of the Christian Bible stores
will match prices.
World Bible School has the best price. $5 for
the Bibles plus shipping and handling.
You can go to
www.worldbibleschoolstudybibles.net and
order. These are not the large print but are
good Bibles.
We are also in need of reading glasses
or you can donate money to buy Bibles and
glasses. We will be going to Corozal.
TODAY
Jr. & Seniors
1-2pm Scrapbook & Art
2-3pm Bible Bowl
3-4pm Song leading
4-5pm Puppets
Welcome to our newest Members
Lane & Pam McAlpin
2508 6th Street, N.E.
Birmingham, AL 35215
Impact group 1
February 10, 2019
After the 10:30 AM Service
in the fellowship hall
Everyone 55 and older are
invited to attend our
Golden Age Banquet. Sign
up sheet in the foyer
TAX STATEMENT
If you would like your 2018 contribution
statement, please sign the list in the foyer.
2019 Connection Teams
Please sign up in the foyer if you
would like to be a part of a connec-
tion team for 2019.
THANK YOU
I want to thank everyone for the calls,
visits and all the gifts received before the
holidays. The fruit basket was wonderful. I
enjoyed it so much. I miss all of you. Hop-
ing to get back soon.
I want to thank all the youth for the gift,
visit and singing to me. I enjoyed it very
much.
Thanks again for thinking of me.
Love all of you,
Marion George
GOLDEN AGE
BANQUET