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Broken and the Blessed Week 1, Day 2

by David Joynt on January 09, 2017


DAY 2

MONDAY—JANUARY 9, 2017

MATTHEW 9:12

At one level, the Beatitudes simply reflect a truth revealed in Jesus’ interaction with people. Who responded to him and connected with his ministry? People who knew their lives needed reformation, like the “moral failures” who’d worked for the Romans collecting taxes or misused their sexuality. People who knew they were not fulfilling the law, like the working poor or “people of the land” who did not have time for the detailed scruples of the purity code in their struggle for survival. People who were socially excluded. People who were physically and emotionally broken, crying out for help. What do these people share? A recognition that they need God’s aid and healing.

 

How deep is your sense of need? 

FAMILY TIME—

What is your favorite story about Jesus or told by Jesus? Why is it your favorite?

 

Tags: devotional, the broken and the blessed

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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