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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:
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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
Worship 10:00 AM
Bible Class 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
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10:00AMService
Welcome
OpeningPrayer
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LordSupper/Offering
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ScriptureReading
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Sermon
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Blood On Our Hands
While living in Southern Ohio, our freezer was often supplied with deer meat.
This was to save money on groceries and also ensure we were eating lean, healthy meat. One
year I decided to save even more by processing the deer myself. Unbeknownst to me, the muzzleloader
season that year would be the coldest of the winter, and I would acquire the deer on the coldest day. It
froze solid and in order to thaw it out, I had to bring it to our basement to process it. My wife puts up with an
awful lot. The process was messy to say the least. Trying to clean up blood is an extremely challenging pro-
cedure, especially with “blood on your hands.” This very vivid phrase is sometimes used to describe guilt.
The Carnton House is a historic home in Franklin, Tennessee, just North of Huntsville, Alabama.
The main house was used as a hospital during the battle of Franklin in the Civil War. There is an eye-
opening fact about this time capsule to a much more disturbing time. The original floors still have blood
stains from the thousands of soldiers who stayed there. Many came in one door of the house and left an-
other to become one of the occupants of the 1500 grave cemetery on the property.
To compare guilt to this picture causes me to shudder. Is guilt really like this? Isaiah said, “...but
your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from
you so that He does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips
have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness” (Isaiah 59:2-3) Sin cuts us off from God. Isaiah is saying
that iniquity literally leaves us with blood on our hands. Your sin and my sin leaves us hopelessly lost. Is this
the end of the story? Is this the conclusion of the matter?
Maybe you noticed the passage began in the middle of a thought. The first part of this passage
leaves us with hope. It leaves us with a way to have the bloodguilt washed off of our hands. “Behold,
the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear” (Isaiah 59:1). The
Lord’s hand is able to save you. The Lord’s hand can wipe away the guilt. It just so happens that the Lord’s
hand has already gone through the process to provide you and I with cleansing. He gave us a way to re-
move the guilt. The Lord’s hand was nailed to a cross where He shed His own blood to remove our guilt.
“This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in Him is
no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not prac-
tice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:4-7).
When you think of the picture of the bloodshed at Carnton House, it’s a gruesome picture that can
still be seen today. Over two thousand years ago, the blood that was shed at the cross can still be accessed
today.
The blood on His hands cleanses the blood on our hands. By Richard Harp

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 $5.00 each
October 3, 2018
Hamburgers, Chips, Dip, Pickle Spears,
Drinks and Strawberry Pretzel Dessert
Weekly Purpose:
$16,138.00
Contribution
$ 15,757.00
Contribution YTD:
$618,937.00
Purpose YTD:
$597,106.00
Average Weekly YTD:
$16,729.00
Mission Sunday:
$83,152.00
Week 39
Prayers
Vera Bonner
Nancy Clements
Jean Dickerson
Graydena Dillbeck
Libby Edgeworth
Ron Fields
Audrey Gammage
Marion George
Kim Green
Roy Hayes
Jim Holcomb
Randy Johnson
Christi Key
Lucille Large
Frances Love
Glenn May
June Moore
Bobbie Naish
Ruby Norris
Lori Parker
Anne Powell
Sue Rawls
Melton & Pat Robertson
Connie Scruggs
Eric Stark
George Shoemaker
Buddy Summers
Gloria Summers
Nell Thomas
Johnny Tucker
Barbara Whisenhunt
Billy White
Maxine Wilson
Hazel Zimmerle
Friends & Family
Greg Price ( Cousin of Rhonda Hodges)
Ryan Montgomery (son of Donna
Dickerson)
Bonner Family (For strength)
Ted Morris (Brother in law of Ancel Nor-
ris)
Eleanor Scruggs (mother of Doug
Scruggs)
Charlie Wagner (uncle of Connie
Scruggs)
Yvonne O’Brien (mother of Connie
Scruggs)
Shirley Bradshaw (Jeannie Kelly’s
mother)
William Hodges (Father of Rhonda
Hodges)
Joe Frost (Cousin of Rhonda Hodges)
Virginia Count (Mother of Leslie Tatum)
Ben Hubbart (bro-in-law of Jim William-
son)
Sawyer Payne (7 yr. old friend of Sherita
Bitten)
Martha Simmons (Rene Lowery’s
Mother)
Sheryl Martin (Cousin of Freida Galla-
gher)
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)
Diedra Fields Sanderson (daughter of
Ron & Barbara Fields)
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)
Yolanda Cummings (Van Powell’s sister)
Leroy & Jean Owens (Parents of Jill Wil-
liams)
Jean Smith ( Lisa Powell’s Mother)
Faye Powell (Ray’s mother)
Our Honored Guests 9–23- 2018
In Town: Cammie Powell , Shawn Polk
Out of Town: none
PANTRY ITEMS:
Canned Soups & Stews
Please no boxed items
Hospital / Rehab List
Judy Crawford—Recovering at home
Marion George—Fell
Roy Hayes—Recovering at home
Lori Parker– Recovering at home
Donna Shoemaker– Recovering at home
Johnny Tucker– Treatments
Tim Shoemaker
ATTENDANCE FOR SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
AM 386 PM 206
Upcoming Events for the Youth
Tonight David Shannon will be
speaking at the 5 pm service. The youth will
be meeting with David Shannon after the
5 pm service.
Sign up sheet in foyer for Exposure
FINISH THE RACE
He was born in 1947 and grew up in Wichita, Kansas.
He was, if I remember correctly, a member of the
church at that time. In 1964 as a sophomore in high
school, he ran the mile race in 3:59, the first time that
any high school student had run a sub four-minute
mile. Two years later, he set the world record for the
mile at 3:51.3. He would eventually break this record
as well as the world record for the 1500 meters at
3:33.
Jim Ryun’s greatest goal as an athlete was to
win the gold medal in the Olympic Games, but it was
never to be. In 1972 he was in contention when he
and another runner bump into each other and both
went down. The other runner stood up and walked off
the track, realizing he had no chance to catch the oth-
ers now. Jim stood up, realizing the same thing, but
once he was sure that he was not hurt, he began to
run after the others. He finished last. His goal, for this
life, was unrealized. He retired in 1976.
Why did he continue the race when he knew
he could never catch the others? Because he knew
that while he could not win, he could finish. This was
what he had trained for and he would not just give up
and quit. I think that perhaps that was Jim’s greatest
victory in athletics.
We are all called upon as Christians to “run
with patience the race that is set before us” (Heb.
12:1). The word translated as “race” is agona from
which we get out word “agony.” Thus the race we are
called upon to run is such that some would be likely to
faint along the way or give up the race altogether.
Brother Coffman says that “It means endurance and
the power of perseverance, including the ability to fin-
ish what is begun.”
Paul’s concern in life was not about his impris-
onment, or that he might be in afflictions wherever he
went, but only that he “might finish my course with
joy” (Acts 20:24). Paul spoke of his life as a Christian
as a race that would last as long as his life lasted.
Thus it was important that he finish that course with
joy and the only way to do that would be to remain
faithful in his service to God. Later when Paul was a
prisoner in Rome, he wrote to Timothy saying. “For I
am now ready to be offered, and the time of my
departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (II
Tim. 4:6, 7). The remarkable thing about this race is
that the reward is not only for one person but for all
who run the race lawfully and to the end. Paul finished
his course and thus will receive the crown of right-
eousness. Let us as God’s children follow the example
of Paul and run our race with patience to the end. For
all who do that, it will be the greatest victory of their
life.
How do you make communion bread?
Ladies please join us on
Saturday, October 6 at 10:30
in the fellowship hall
Charlotte Van Horn will teach a class on
how to make the communion bread. It is
easier than you think to make.
Ladies Retreat
October 12-13th
Guntersville State Lodge
If you have any questions
please see Elizabeth Cobb
The menu for the on-site restaurant
is on the table in the foyer, we will be
eating there on our own for dinner
and breakfast.
Kitchen helpers
We need 2 or 3 kitchen helpers for Wednes-
day nights starting after the first of the year.
Kitty will be moving and her staff will be
retiring. If you are interested please see
Rhonda Hodges or Kitty Lewis for more
information.
THANK YOU
Dear Church,
Thanks for all the cards, calls and vis-
its while I was in the hospital. The
prayers were so special.
Thank you again,
Maxine Wilson
I want to express my appreciation for
all your thoughts and prayers at the loss
of my mother, Louise. The expressions
of love shown to our family through
your cards and words of sympathy were
a comfort to us. It is so wonderful to be
a part of such a loving congregation.
Darnell Self
David Shannon
FHU
Join us on Sunday night
September 30
Our speaker will be
David Shannon, President of Freed-
Hardeman University. We will have
combined classes 3rd grade & up.
Attention youth: The youth group will
meet will David Shannon after worship
Tonight.
Baby Shower
October 14
2 pm –4 pm
Fellowship Hall
For
David & Courtney Gilmore
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