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The Rev. Dr. Sam Matthews is senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Marietta, GA.
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The Rev. Dr. Sam Matthews is senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Marietta, GA.
He is a native Georgian and a graduate of Piedmont College, Emory University (M. Div.), and the Columbia Theological Seminary (D. Min.).
He spends his free time reading and writing. He is an avid golfer and a reluctant gardener. He has been a regular columnist for The Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of Georgia Methodism, and devoted time to the well-being of disenfranchised children and youth.
He and his wife Bobbi enjoy three adult sons and one grandson.
In one of those mid-life surprises that sometimes come along, Dr. Matthews learned recently that he was named indirectly for the great Methodist evangelist, Sam P. Jones, and has been working long hours now to live up to the challenge.
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The Rev. Dr. Sam Matthews (UMC)In this Day One Podcast Extra, The Rev. Dr. Sam Matthews, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Marietta, GA, shares his personal insights and experiences
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Then How Do We Live?
Luke 12:13-21
Proper 13 - Year C
August 05, 2007
The Rev. Dr. Sam Matthews (UMC)The questions that those around Jesus asked of him are the well from which we draw a great deal of his teaching and the source of lots of wonderful thought and consideration for the church. They are often, of course, our questions, the same questions we would ask him, and we identify with them. I remember preaching a series of sermons in my church a while back about some of those questions. Questions that people asked Jesus. And I included some of those that come so readily to mind:
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