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Broken and the Blessed Week 6, Day1

by David Joynt on February 12, 2017


WEEK 6

DAY 36

“Blessed are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8a

 The heart, in scripture, is the center of the human person. The Hebrew word is “leb” and the Greek is “kardia,” from which we get our English terms like “cardiac” and “cardiologist.” Both the Hebrew and Greek terms refer to the part of us that feels, wills, and thinks. These three inner activities shape our personality and our identity through our thoughts, deeds, and emotions. To be pure in heart is to have clarity at the center of your feeling, doing, and thinking.

 

 

Which do you find hardest to control—your feelings, thoughts, or actions?

 How clear are you at the center?

 

FAMILY TIME:

Think of a time today when your emotions got the better of you.

What were you thinking and doing at that moment?

 

 

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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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