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A New Heart for the Valley Week 4, Day 2

by David Joynt on March 12, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 4, Day 2

 

ROMANS 7:21-25

 

Two things come to mind which disrupts our ability to will the one thing necessary, namely living with obedient joy in the presence of God. One is internal, it is the reality of our divided wills, the conflicting desires that existing with us driving us to and fro, and sometimes freezing us in suspended animation between courses of action or between different things demanding attention.

 

This conflict is well described by Paul in Romans 7.

 

 

How do you achieve peace, or at least a cease-fire, between your conflicting desires?

 

FAMILY TIME

Do you have an inner battle?

What does it feel like?

Give an example.

 

 

Tags: peace, conflicting desires

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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