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Easter Hearts, Week 3, Day 3

by David Joynt on April 24, 2018

Easter Hearts, Week 3, Day 3

JOHN 20:25 | JOHN 14:1-6

 

Thomas had a penchant for honesty. Rather than suppressing his doubts or pretending, he had the courage to make known his doubts or to express his confusion. He was the student who would raise his hand and admit “I don’t get this!” See his comments in John 14 about Jesus’ departure. “Lord, we don’t know where you are going! How can we know the way!?”

 

Jesus never runs from doubts or questions. He knows that we must begin where we are in order to make progress. If we have doubts, we must begin to voice them, or they remain as hidden barriers to understanding and growth.

 

Are you comfortable raising hard questions?

 

Are you comfortable responding to them?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Do you have someone and somewhere you can ask if you have faith questions?

 

Who is it and where is it?

 

Tags: hard questions

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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