Weekday Email to Members and Friends – 2021-02-05
Friday, February 5th, 2021
A weekday e-mailer from
Matt Matthews
Dear Friends,
I rushed to a friend’s hospital room when his wife called and said they were getting ready to do emergency heart surgery. The crew preparing to wheel him to surgery stepped back when I stepped in to pray. After I prayed, while the attendants unlocked the wheels of his bed, I asked, “Are you nervous?”
I calculated that his answer would give me an opportunity to remind him that he was safely in God’s hands. My plan back fired.
“I’m not nervous,” he said. Then he grabbed the door jamb as they wheeled him out. “Remember that creed we said in worship on Sunday?”
I nodded.
He said, “I believe it.”
Thank you, Brian, for your faith and for your witness to a smart-ass pastor who thought he knew it all.
This is what we said on that Sunday, and if you join us on this Sunday, you’ll see this again:
Affirmation of Faith/ Question & Answer #1, The Heidelberg Catechism
Q.1. What is your only comfort, in life and in death?
A. That I belong—body and soul, in life and in death—not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit his purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.
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See you there on this Sunday.
FirstPres.Live.
PEACE and much love,
Matt Matthews
864.386.9138
matt@firstpres.church
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From your Nurture Team — Last week’s photo challenge was a tough one! We received no successful guesses for last week’s photo of Greg Cozad.
Here’s this week’s photo.
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Please join in the fun! We are running low on photos, so we would like you to select a photo from your younger years (grade school, high school or early adulthood). Photos need not be professional. Candid shots are welcome. Please send your photos to photos@
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