with worship.
August 8, 2021
Sunday, August 8, 2021 At-A-Glance In honor of the God we worship, you are invited to stand as we sing as you are physically able.
“Victory Chant” “I Will Walk” “How Great Thou Art”
WE WORSHIP JESUS Welcome & Offertory Prayer
“Ah Lord God” “He is Exalted” “Ancient Words”
A Crash Course on Beginnings Pastor Ken Kopal “Great is Thy Faithfulness” “Trust the Lord”
with Pastor Ken 2820 N. Pleasant View Drive Prescott Valley, AZ 86314 928-772-7218 fsbcpv@firstsouthernpv.org www.firstsouthernpv.org Church Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:30AM - 2:30PM Senior Pastor Terrell Eldreth: 928-277-4769 Cell: 619-244-6265 PastorTerrell@firstsouthernpv.org Executive Pastor Ken Kopal: 602-738-0532 PastorKen@firstsouthernpv.org Worship Pastor Bart Young 928-254-8713 PastorBart@firstsouthernpv.org TO RECEIVE OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER THROUGH YOUR EMAIL SIMPLY MARK THE FRONT OF YOUR CONNECTION CARD. THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO RECEIVE CURRENT INFORMATION AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. To be removed from future mailings, please reply to this email and type “unsubscribe” in the Subject line.
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In Matthew 5:13, Jesus says, You are the salt of the earth; some of my original thinking about this reminded me of the blue box with a little girl holding an umbrella. The little store where my mom bought all of the family groceries only carried Morton Salt. The packaging is very distinctive. I assumed everyone would recognize that package and know it was salt. In the same way, the world should realize Christians. It's in the packaging from the outside everyone should know who we are. Of course, at that time, I could not tell you what being a Christian looked like. As I became older, I learned more about salt, its usefulness, and even a better understanding of what being a Christian looked like. It was not until our last small group where some of us read the book 'The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread Expanded Edition' by Richard Booker. That we learned more about salt and what Jesus was telling us. In the book, Booker explained that the disciples whom Jesus was talking to understood more about salt because of the time and culture they were living in. The book tells that the disciples understood there are many uses of salt as an antiseptic, a cleaning agent, for dressing wounds, preserving, purifying, as a substitute for blood, and thousands of other benefits. Did you catch the substitute for blood? That seemed strange to me until I understood from Booker's book that ancient people looked at blood and salt as being almost interchangeable because blood has salt in it, and salt like blood is necessary for life. It was not uncommon for salt to substitute for blood during sacrifices if blood was not available. continued