July 20th, 2014

Order of W

orsh

ip

Welcome - Ja

son M

oon

# 732 We Praise The

e, O God

# 501 O Worship

The King

Prayer - B

arry Lewis

# 359 Jesus K

eep Me Near The

Cross

Lord’s S

upper/O

ffering

Micha

el Dykes

# 315 I’ll Live

In Glory

# 684 This W

orld Is N

ot My Home

Scrip

ture - A

dam Brakefield

Sermon - “W

hy We Should Work Fo

r Our G

ospel Meeting

”

# 125 Do You Know My Jesus?

Announcements

Shepherd’s P

rayer

Nursery Atten

dants:

AM Roy & Susan Hayes

PM W

atson Fa

mily

DOM for Ju

ly - G

unn, Hayes, K

ey

Baptism

al Garments fo

r July - R

ebecca Gray

Bus D

rivers fo

r July -

7/27 Pat O’Rourke

Our Meeting is Almost Here! What Can We Do??? PUBLICIZE: Tell everyone you know about our meeting. Just think of how many people you know that you can invite. Your friends, coworkers, family members, and neighbors all have an eternal soul (Matt. 16:26) PRESENCE: Boost our meeting by being present at every one of the ser-vices. Don’t let anything stop you from attending. Secular activities can wait until next week. The assembling of the saints must not be forsaken.(Heb. 10:25) Christ and His kingdom must come first (Matt. 6:33)!!! PRAY: Pray for success. Pray for the lost to be led to Christ. Pray for the wandering child of God to be led back home. Pray for the discouraged to gain strength. Pray for the guest Gospel preacher! Between now and our meeting “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17) for a great meeting! PARTICIPATE: Don’t just come to the worship services and be an observer. Joyfully participate! Have your mind centered on God. Try not to distract by unneeded trips to the restroom. Sing like you are happy you are saved. Give the preacher your full attention. During the invitation song, please stand and sing rather than getting your things together, or, even worse, leaving. Remember, someone close to you could be contemplating responding. PRACTICE: How many times have we heard a brother pray, “Help us to take the things we’ve heard and apply them to our everyday lives?” After a week of preaching there ought to be some things we can put into practice. Let’s practice what we learn. Paul said, “The things you learned and re-ceived and heard and saw in me, these DO and the God of peace will be with you.” (Phil. 4:9)

Why We Should Work for Our Gospel M

eeting

Reading: Eph. 2:8-10

1. B

ECAUSE OF THE _______________ OF THE _______________.

a. _______________ placed

the ab

solute h

ighest v

alue on the so

ul (M

att. 16:26).

b. Y

et, very often

, we’ll ab

use o

ur _______________ and _______________ the so

ul as if it is w

orthless.

c. The Bible rem

inds us of the value of ev

en ____________ soul (L

uke 15, Jam

es 5:19-20).

2. B

ECAUSE OF THE _______________ OF THE _______________ IN _______________.

a. Being _______________ to God (Jn

. 6:44-45)

b. B

eing _______________ to God (2 Thess. 2

:14)

c. _______________ (Ps. 19:7)

d. B

eing _______________ _______________ (Jn

. 3:5, Jam

es 1:18)

e. _______________ from sins (Jam

es 1:21)

f. _______________ to God (2 Cor. 5:19-21)

g. _

______________ after salv

ation (1 Jn. 1:7, Jn. 15:3)

h. _______________ to stay

away from sin (Ps. 119:11)

3. B

ECAUSE OF THE _______________ OF _______________.

a. James 4

:13-17

b. W

hy this co

uld be our/your last G

ospel m

eeting:

i. _______________ could _______________ again.

ii. You could ____________.

(Serm

on preached by J

ason Moon @

RPCC on 7-20-14 a.m.)

Greeters 7

/27/14

8:45 - 9

:05

9:45 - 1

0:05

Office

Adam & Jennife

r Brakefield

Office

Ed Cooper, B

rad Hagerman

Room 113 Kenny

& Pam Racha

l

Room 113 Jud

y Barnett, D

ot Mitche

ll Room 108 Sue Adams, M

ona Jenkins

Room 108 Ed

die & Cheyenne

Birdyshaw

4:45 - 5

:05

Office

P

aul &

Marisa

Windham

Room 113 Alan &

Margie Eng

land

Room 108 Micha

el & Heather Dykes

Tim Shoemaker

Wednesday Night Meal Please sign up in foyer before Wed. so Kitty will know how much

food to prepare. Dinner is served at 6 pm. The cost is only $5 each. July 23rd

Lazy Lasagna, Salad, Garlic Bread, Drinks * Clean up help is appreciated !

Spaghetti Spaghetti Sauce Beenie Weenies

Our Honored Guests 7/13/2014 In Town: Vera Bonner, Susan Dreyer, Dave Evans Out of Town: Randy & Rebecca Dunn, Josh Jennings Family, Bob & Charlotte White

July 13th, 2014 Sun AM 461 Sun PM 262

Total Goal for 2014 127

Local Work Goal 52 25

Belize Campaign Goal 30 6

Stateside Campaigns Goal

10

Know Your Bible Goal

35 8

Total Baptisms 39

New Families 6

Restored 6

Weekly Purpose: $17461.00

Contribution: $17575.00

Contribution YTD: $487141.01 Purpose YTD: $471447.00

Average Weekly YTD: $18042.26

Mission Sunday: $85658.00 (Week 27)

Prayers: Sherryl Adkins Carla Allison Frances Cason Carlene D’Amico Dot Davison Terry Davidson Marilyn Glass Beth Goodwin LaRue Hix Mark Harley Jimmy Howell Pat Howell Annie Ivey Lucille Large Frances Love Glenn May June Moore Bobbie Naish Priscilla Newton (Surgery 7/14) Jerry Oakes Barbara Owen Anne Powell Kenny Rachal Pamela Richardson Becke Stripling (Surgery 7/14) Buddy Summers Gloria Summers Don Taylor Stephanie Theoret Danny Thomas Mary Thomas Betty Tucker Billy White Maxine Wilson (Surgery 7/18) Glenn Wood Leslie Woodrow

Friends & Family Alvin Jenkins (father of Linda Carter & Patsy O’Rourke)

June Filasek SVD’Town (Newborn great-granddaughter of Patsy Lentz)

Jenifer Dienhardt - (36 Yr. old niece of Christy McGehee & Charla New) reoccurring bone cancer

Susan Courington (Daniel’s Mom)

Betty Courington (Daniel’s grandmother)

Don Smith (Darrell Smith’s father) Heart Valve surgery, Brookwood

Connie Thomas - Hip Replacement (Tonya Hayes’ grandmother)

Carlene Todd Cancer (Friend of Rebecca Mancha)

Melanie Tolleson knee surgery (June Moore’s grand-daughter)

Robert & Dorothy Thorn (Leslie Wood-row’s parents)

Tyler Shadix (Son-in-law of Steve & Robin Maynard)

Wanda Adams (Co-worker of Ancel Norris - Thyroid cancer)

Yolanda Cummings (Van Powell’s Sister) Bobby Fuller (Mike McGill’s uncle) Rollie & Faye Powell (Ray’s parents) Amelia Hancock - Hospice (Terry Malone’s sister)

Andersond Todd III (Corey White’s father-

in-law) Carolyn Plunk (Donna Shoemaker’s

sister) Bob Furry (Donna Southerland’s uncle) Amy Scruggs (Doug Scruggs’ sister) Carol Bebelaar (Megan Rowell’s grand-mother) William Hodges (Rhonda Hodges’ father) Harriette & Charles Byrd (Helen Oakes’ sister & brother-in-law) Osburne & Margie Holt (parents of Patty Gammage)

Tori White (Margaret White’s daughter)

The Woodlawn/Roebuck Parkway congregation met in Woodlawn on 1st Avenue North between 53rd and 54th Street from 1957-1983. We have

been at our present location since 1983.

****After evening service on Sunday, August 10th, (in the auditorium), we will focus on

events/memories at the 1st Avenue location. Ancel Norris will give an overview of our 26 years at this location and then members will

have the opportunity to talk about their memories at the Woodlawn congregation. (Each 3-5 minutes, depending on the

number of speakers). Contact Ancel to be placed on the program.

****Also, following the evening service on

Sunday, August 17th, (in the auditorium), we will focus on events/memories at Roebuck Park-way. Mike McGill will give an overview of our 31 years at this location and then members will have the opportunity to talk about their memories at Roebuck Parkway (again, 3-5 minutes de-

pending on the number of speakers.) Contact Mike to be placed on the program.

Both presentations will be from floor level in the auditorium and will start 15 minutes

after service concludes. In the recent 60th Street program, personal memories by members were a highlight,

so don’t be hesitant about telling your favorite memory– these are not graded speeches

and humor is allowed!

The Mistake of Thinking that God Is Like Man

In our previous article we were noticing God’s statement to Israel in Psalms 50:21 when He told them, “These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will re-buke you, And set them in order before your eyes” (Psalms 50:21). Thinking that God was like man can lead to a number of other errors including the belief that if I can hide myself from man then I can hide myself from God which as we noticed is false. Likewise because we are able to deceive men, many are led to believe that they can also deceive God. The Bible is filled with examples where men have man-aged to deceive one another. Abraham was able to de-ceive Abimelech and Pharaoh concerning Sarah. Fear-ful that there would be those in Egypt who would kill him in order to take his wife Sarah, Abraham instructed her to tell everyone that she was Abraham’s sister. The people believe their lie and when Pharaoh was told of her beauty he sent for her and had her brought to his home. It was only when God afflicted Pharaoh that he learned the truth and sent Sarah back to Abraham. Later the same lie was successful in deceiving Abi-melech the king of Gerar (Genesis 20:1-7). Jacob was able to deceive his father Isaac into thinking he was Isaac’s eldest son, Esau. Due to the failing eyesight of Isaac, and with the help of his mother, Jacob was able to disguise himself and thus success-fully deceive Isaac. As a result he obtained the blessing that Isaac had intended to give to Esau. Such deception can never fool God. On one occa-sion Jeroboam’s son had become ill and he sent his wife to inquire of the prophet Ahijah to learn if he would recover. He told his wife to disguise herself so that the prophet would not know who she was. The text tells us that Ahijah “could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age” (I Kings 14:4b). No doubt Ahijah as a man could have been deceived just as Isaac was de-ceived, except for the fact that “the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be an-other woman” (I Kings 14:5). Therefore, when she came to Ahijah’s home the text tells us, “And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be an-other? (I Kings 14:6). The scribes and the Pharisees were not able to deceive Jesus even though they had deceived many of their fellow Jews (Matthew 23:2, 3). We may try to dis-guise who we are, pretending to be someone we are not so as to be able to deceive our fellow man but rest as-sured that we cannot and will not be able to deceive God.

Roebuck Parkway Gospel Meeting July 27th - 30th, 2014

Neal Pollard from Denver, Colorado

We need your help! Sign up sheets are on the bulletin board in the foyer, by the auditorium.

2014 Summer Series 7:00 pm, July 23rd Scott Crawford “The Church in Revelation”

You’re Invited !

Sylvan Springs Church of Christ 5445 Birmingport Road

Sylvan Springs, AL 35118 (205) 497-8855

Vacation Bible School “Bible Superheroes” July 27-30th 7:00 pm

Classes & Activities for All Ages ~~~~~~~~~~~

Homecoming & Gospel Meeting August 2-6

Logan Martin Church of Christ 3401 Martin St. South (Hwy. 231S)

Pell City, AL 35125 (205) 884-2870

Speaker: Andy Brewer ~~~~~~~~~~~

Acappella Singing August 8th 7- 8 pm

Bridgeport Church of Christ 804 Chisolm Ave.

Bridgeport, AL 35740

Loaves & Fishes Ministry

The food drive is TODAY, July 20th. We are hoping to replenish the shelves to be

able to continue to help those in need. All non-perishable food items will be

accepted. Drop - off points will be at the office entrance, room 108 entrance, and the third floor entrance. Thank you for your on going support in this cause. EVERY CAN

MAKES A DIFFERENCE !!

Men’s Monthly Devotional

Tuesday, July 22nd

Where: Barry Lewis’ house What Time: If you plan to eat: 6:30 ($5 each) If you do not plan to eat: 7:00 for devo Who: Males of all ages (16-100 years old) Fellowship with your Christian brothers will

adjourn around 8:30 pm.

DEACON’S MEETING TODAY @ 4 pm - Room 108

Attention All Ladies ! The Ladies Time Out group from church would love to have you join us on a short trip to Aldridge Gardens on Aug. 4th. We will meet at the building at 9 am, & ride the bus together to tour the historical house and gardens. NO admission fee. We will have lunch together at a restaurant following. You may ask your friends to join us. Let’s have a day of fellowship with Christian sis-

ters. Please contact Patt Wills if you plan to attend.

Thanks to each & everyone that sent me cards. I enjoyed them and they really uplifted me, in spiritual

feelings. May God bless you all. Lucille Large

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Youth July 23rd : Wacky Wednesday July 24-26: IMPACT: Birmingham / July 27-30 Gospel Meeting

Baptisms 7/16/14 Wes McGehee Maywood: Darby Risner, Devon & Cameron Brand,

Madison Dominic, Maison Tanner, Sarah Evans, Meredith Dameron We are so proud of our young people with their decision to put on Christ in Baptism.