Bethsalem Baptist Church

Our worship began with Bro. Justin giving announcements and welcoming everyone.

Bro. Cleve shared a video on Fuge. Several students gave their testimonies when they went to Fuge last week. 29 students went, and they did a great job giving their testimonies. We are proud of our youth and Bro. Cleve.

Bro. Cleve preached from James 1-5, “Alive & Free” was a great message.

Evening service: We had Bible study. Students had a swim party at Roy & Patti Martin’s home. On Wednesday night, we have adult Bible study, student and children activites at 6:30 p.m.

Pray this week for Charles Held, Wendal Hand,Lynn Cox, Pete Johnson, Renie Thomas, Mike Smith, Shirley Smith, James Howard, Melissa Langford, Pat Blalock, Kathy Firzgerald, Kyle Fulford, Sid Griner, Jimmy Headley, Michael Arnold, Kinlee Till, Hunter Moore, Justin & Peter Daugherty, Jonathan Limbrick, Chad Nix, Lowell Strock, Mama Mims, Stephanie Hinton, Paul Price, Kelli & Tim Milford, those facing

cancer, our homebound, assisted living & nursing home resident, and our country & leaders.

Happy Birthday this week to Brayden Cooper, Harold Patterson, Chad Jones, Makayle Mims, Tony Thomas, Preston Wallace, Landon Schmidthorst, Katelyn Clark, Rosemary Johnson, Kelley Taylor, Diane Knighten and Criss Hand.

We are having an ice cream social on July 19 at 6 p.m. Bring your  best. Have a blessed week, and come worship with us on Sunday and get connected with us.

Cedar Grove Church

Announcements: Wednesday night service will be led by Bro. Wayne Castleberry at 7 p.m. on Friday night. Christians Unite will be held at 7 p.m. at the pavilion across from the Chilton County Courthouse. Everyone is invited. On Saturday, July 18, WKLF Clanton Radio Station will be providing 12 hours of preaching the Gospel from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Several different pastors will be bringing the gospel. Please tune in for the blessing. On July 25, we will be having a mission outreach at Wood Park in Thorsby from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. There will be singing, preaching, great fellowship, free hot dogs and drinks. Everyone is invited.

Prayer Concerns: Our pastors, church family, those in hospitals and nursing homes, spoken and unspoken requests.

Pastor Jeff Carroll’s text came from John 8:1-11,”Caught In The Act.”

Jesus was in the temple about the Father’s business preaching the gospel, when the Scribes and Pharisees brought before him a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery.

Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what do you say? This they said testing him that they might have something to accuse him. We know that the taking of another man’s wife or another woman’s husband is adultery, just as having a sexual relationship with a man or woman out of wedlock is fornication.

As man shall not lie with man, nor woman shall not lie with woman, for it is an abomination unto God. Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground, with his finger as though he had not heard. So when they continued asking him he raised himself up and said to them he who is without sin cast the first stone at her.

Then those heard it being convicted by their conscience went out one by one beginning with the oldest, even to the last. They were caught in the act, just as we all have been at one time or another in our sin. Jesus was left alone with the woman standing in his midst.

When Jesus had raised himself up and saw no one but the woman, he said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you go and sin no more.”

In closing, you do not have to be ashamed of condemnation, by walking in the flesh as a broken vessel, guilty.

Jesus came to save the broken, to set us free of the shackles of our sin. Are you still in bondage? Caught in the act of your sin or are you set free?

We see America is caught in the act of turning her back on God. Let us pray that America will repent and return to one nation under God again. In Jesus’ name, Amen.