April 20, 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:
April 23
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/Kids Choir 6:00 pm
Evening Worship 6:00 pm
Cemetery: In memory of Mr. & Mrs. H.J. Wills, Margaret Wills Bond & Norman Pass by Elaine Pass.
Budget: In honor of Frances Putman for her birthday by Charles & Sue Turner. In memory of Charles Wright by Al & JoAnn Garrett and Shelia Kay Shumate. In memory of Marilyn Revis by Sue Webb-Pike; by Robert & Jo Kicker.
Music: In memory of Wayne Finlayson by Ann Johnson.
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. Here are the final suggestions and a better alternative.
13. Live a performative life over an engaged life. Here it is: the temptation of the age. A performative life is about you. It’s about looking good before others. It’s not about “making it your ambition to live a quiet life” (1 Thess. 4:11). It’s about wanting to be known, wanting to be praised, wanting to be recognized for your own laudable authenticity. It’s about broadcasting your opinions, barely-formed, rather than listening.
The engaged life, by contrast, is the life that is not about you. It’s about the Lord. In it, joy is found in being known by God, not esteemed by others. It’s about living wisely. It’s about death to self. It’s about enjoying the moments God gives you, not broadcasting them to others. It’s about service, and not about being endlessly tended to by others. It’s about entering into the joy of giving yourself so that others can flourish. It’s about being authentic, but not in a culturally-mandated way. It’s about thinking for yourself, and taking time to form opinions, and submitting yourself to discipline and structures and institutions and wise teachers. It’s about digging in with your family if you have one, and spending quality time with them. It’s about standing for the honor of God when no one else will. It’s about rejoicing with those who rejoice, and mourning with those who mourn.
The engaged life is strange, deeply counter-cultural, and much less boisterous than the performative one. It is in truth the good life. But here’s the thing: Screwtape doesn’t want you to live it.
But God does, and God rewards those who do by his power.
I want my life to count for something positive, and I hope you do too. I look forward to seeing you this Sunday at worship.
Dr. Josh Cook
Attendance Small Groups: 244
Morning Worship: 427
Evening Worship: N/A
Wednesday Night: 175
Tithes/Offerings April 16: $9,199
2017 Total: $235,249 RFT: $16,255
Childcare (4/23)
Sheila Gilliland
Natasha May
Genie Parks
Linda Sexton
Mindy Ellis
Praise Pals (4/23)
Kathy Headley
Kids in Him (April)
Carin Hill
Lori McGriff
Jesus and Me (April)
Faith Abney
Lora Hawkins
Security Patrol (4/23)
Mike Elliott
Gerald Hicks
Jim Zezulka
Deacon Hospital Visits
Conrad Wellbaum (Friday 4/21)
Allen Myers (Saturday 4/22)
David Amerson (Sunday 4/23)
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
April is Pure Water, Pure Love
month! Please give to help those
in need of clean water around
the world!
Evangelism Matters Sunday, April 23
4:30 pm Fellowship Hall
Senior Adult Day
Tuesday, May 2
10:30 am
Please sign up in the church office. Special Music by:
The Golden Heirs
We need a few items for VBS: paper towel tubes toilet paper tubes
20 oz. water bottles
Southern Gospel Singing & Message by Jared Cook (Brother of Josh Cook)
Sunday, April 23 at 6:00 pm
WMU General Meeting Monday, May 8
10:00 am Fellowship Hall
Business Meeting April 30
Evening Worship
Lifeline Screening Thursday, May 11 Fellowship Hall
