January 13, 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
HeavenBound
Scripturereading:Acts24:22-23&EPHESIANS4:1
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10:30AMService
Welcome
977TheBattleBelongstotheLord
297IWanttobeaWorker
280IKnowWhoHoldsTomorrow
OpeningPrayer
CaseyMann
203Hallelujah!WhataSavior!
LordSupper/Offering
TerryRaybon
71BlessedAssurance
509IAmBoundforthePromisedLand
ScriptureReading
CanaanHood
Sermon
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5:00PMService
Lord’sSupper/Offering
BrandonCacioppo
DOMforJanuary
McGill,Neal,Spitzley
BusDrivers
January13JamesMorris515-5644
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WEBSITE
deerfootcoc.com
office@deerfootcoc.com
205-833-1400
8:00AMService
Welcome
947JesusLetUsCometoKnowYou
273IKnowtheLordWillFindaWay
387LeadMetoSomeSoulToday
OpeningPrayer
AlanEngland
644‘TisSet,theFeastDivine
LordSupper/Offering
BobbyGunn
500OThouFountofEveryBlessing
432MyStubbornWill
509IamBoundforthePromised
Land
ScriptureReading
SolGodwin
Sermon
BaptismalGarmentsfor
January
PamStringfellow
BarbaraFields
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5:00PMDougScruggs
The Greatest Treasure
One of my favorite pastimes is hiking through the
woods without a trail. When I was a boy of around 8
and 9, I do not remember a day when I was not in the
woods. For a time, we lived in my dad’s home town of
Haleyville, Alabama, in the Free state of Winston County. My best friend and I
were homeschooled, so our families were often together working on our school work. Once
the “home” work was completed, we headed for the hills. My best friend lived on a piece of land that
bordered the Sipsey Wilderness of the Bankhead National Forest. We often waded through offshoots
of the Sipsey river in search of arrowheads and crawdads.
While climbing outcroppings on a natural rock face, we found a pretty substantial waterfall.
We found small caves in the rock where we made forts, and our imaginations again went as wild as
we felt. we were Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on our childhood adventures. On that preserved piece of
earth, the greatest treasure I found was my God. “
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the
things that have been made. So they are without excuse’ (Romans 1:20). The more I study creation
and the scriptures, I find God. It may be because of this childhood experience, but my favorite pas-
sage in scripture is, “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day” (Genesis 3:8a). I have walked amongst the trees of God’s garden in the cool of the day. I have
heard the leaves rustle in the wind and mountain streams ebb and flow around the rocks. I almost
taste the air as I imagine what it would have been like to walk with God. Yet the second part to that
passage is devastating and puts an abrupt pause to the blissful picture. “And they heard the sound of
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden” (Genesis 3:8). In the forest, there
is no place to hide ourselves from God. To think that we can is foolish. In fact, Romans 1:20 (quoted
above) is stated in the context of those who strive to hide from God like their original mother and fa-
ther.
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to
them, because God has shown it to them” (Romans 1:19-20). To try to suppress truth is to attempt to
hide from the greatest treasure ever given. Jesus embodies Truth.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father ex-
cept through me” (John 14:6).Through Jesus, we can again walk with God. The blissful picture is un-
paused and the ability to walk with God has resumed. Will you choose to take hold of the hand of the
greatest treasure?
A Note From the Harp

Weekly Purpose:
$15,618.00
Contribution
$ 23,164.00
Contribution YTD:
$23,164.00
Purpose YTD:
$15,618.00
Average Weekly YTD:
$23,164.00
Mission Sunday:
$83,152.00
Week 1
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
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)
Natasha Champion (daughter of Don
Champion)
Jim Malone (brother of Terry Malone)
Rachael Hand (daughter of Melanie
Tolleson)
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 1-13-2018
In Town: Cynthia Brown, Antwon Fitts, Ally, Kyle & Aubree
Hurston, Cammie Powell
Out of Town: Cindy Martin
PANTRY ITEMS:
Canned Soups & Stews
Hospital / Rehab List
Mike Godwin– UAB– 8th floor-8212
Frances Love– Went Home
Janet Snow– Recovering at home
Billy White –VA
Tim Shoemaker
ATTENDANCE FOR JANUARY 13, 2018
AM 444 PM 258
Events for the Youth
Area Wide January 20 at
Ashville Road Church of Christ
Spiritual Security
“…and to patience godliness.” This is the sixth
of the eight virtues that Peter lists. “Godliness” is from
the Greek word eusebeia, a compound word eu, “well”
and sebomai “to be devout.” According to Vine it
“denotes that piety which, characterized by a Godward
attitude, does that which is well-pleasing to Him.” William
Barclay translates it as “piety” but adds that “it is quite
untranslatable.” He does say that it is a word that is char-
acterized by the fact that it looks in two directions.
Among the Greeks and the Romans it was a word that
describes the man who was “careful and correct in per-
forming his duties both to gods and men.” This may have
been used by Peter in contrast to those false teachers
who failed in the proper behavior toward God and their
fellow man.
Brother Guy N. Woods pointed out that in adding godli-
ness to patience, that “patience can be approved only
when it results in submission to the burdens of life for the
sake of pleasing the Father. The desire to be godlike is
the motive from which all our actions should originate
and without which there can be no acceptable service
rendered to God.”
Godliness is a virtue that we need in our lives but
the problem is that sometimes we find individuals who
manifest a “godliness” that is not real. Paul told Timothy
that in the last perilous times would come where there
would be those who have a “form of godliness” but who
deny its power (II Tim. 3:5). It is possible that one may
give the appearance of godliness but absolutely refuses
the idea that it should change their lives. William Barclay
quotes Lord Melbourne as saying, “Things have come to
a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the
sphere of private life.” Yet that is exactly what Christianity
ought to do. The truly godly person is one who has
changed for the better.
True godliness is profitable both for the life and the
life to come. Paul also told Timothy “For bodily exer-
cise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all
things, having promise of the life that now is and of
that which is to come” (I Tim. 4:8). Physical exercise
aids one in having better physical health in this life but
godliness will profit one not only here in this life but in the
life to come. Later is this same letter Paul reminded
Timothy, “Now godliness with contentment is great
gain” (I Tim. 6:6). In his commentary on I Timothy Don-
ald Guthrie said that “godliness will only be true gain
when independent of circumstances,” and brother David
Lipscomb echoed this thought saying, “It is great gain to
learn to be content without riches or earthly treasures.”
When we have this godliness so that we behave properly
toward God and our fellow man we can truly be content
and that is great gain indeed.
-to be continued
CIA– 2019
January 15, 22, 29 –Class
9:30 am –11 am
Area Wide Singing
February 1, 2019
7 PM
Deerfoot Church of Christ
Please invite your friends and neighbors.
Share on face book and all your social
media. Please bring enough finger foods
and drinks for your friends and family.
Area Wide Singing
Belize Mission Trip
January 16-March 20
There will be a class for everyone
going to Belize starting on Wednes-
day night, January 16. We will
meet in the Fellowship Hall. The
Youth group class will meet in the
fellowship hall. Anyone wishing to
learn how to teach God Speaks To-
day is welcome.
The adults will have a class
taught by Paul Windham in the
auditorium.
Wee Folks
January 13, 20, 27
1-18-2019 Munford Church of Christ
1-25-2019 Riverchase Church of Christ
2-1-2019 Deerfoot Church of Christ
2-8-2019 Christian Chapel Church of Christ
2-15-2019 Madison Church of Christ
Registration for Lads is due
TODAY . Forms are in the
foyer.
Senior Bible Bowl will meet to-
day at 4:00 pm in the 3rd-5th
classroom.
Junior puppets (K-3rd ) will meet
today at 4:00 pm in the fellow-
ship hall
SYMPATHY
To the family of Donna Evans at the
passing of her Uncle, Bill Johnson, His
funeral was last Monday in Trussville.
To the family of Betty Aldridge, at the
passing of her son John. His funeral was
last week in Winfield
DEACON MEETING
TODAY @ 4PM
Deaf Classroom
Dynamic Deacons Seminar
January 26th from 8am-2pm
Speaker: Aubrey Johnson
All deacons, elders and ministers
are encouraged to attend
Lunch will be provided
TAX STATEMENT
If you would like your 2018 contri-
bution 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
connection team for 2019.