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A New Heart for the Valley Week 3, Day 1

by David Joynt on March 04, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 3, Day 1

WEEK 3

AN INVITATIONAL HEART

 

MARK 2:1-12

 

Try a little experiment. For 15 minutes, don’t move your legs. Allow yourself to be immobile. Write down your feelings and impressions. Imagine if the condition were permanent. Think of what it would be like to be utterly dependent on someone to move you, to get you to church, or to work, or to meetings with friends or family.

 

 

Pray for people in our congregation and beyond who deal with physical limitations.

 

Keep this experience in mind as we study the scripture this week.

 

FAMILY TIME

Are you comfortable asking for help?

If not, why not?

Are you comfortable helping?

 

Tags: help, helping

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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