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Questions Week 14, Day 6

by David Joynt on August 04, 2017


MATTHEW 4:8-11


One question we all will face is the success question. What will we do and what will we refuse to do to achieve and advance? Jesus was offered success as long as he sacrificed loyalty to God, power was there for the taking, if he was willing to genuflect to Satan.

In business, in ministry, in education we have to decide where our boundaries will be. Will we tell a lie or withhold the full truth? Will we take credit from someone who deserves it? Will we sacrifice friends or family relationships? Will we forgo opportunities to help and serve? Will our integrity come second to our bank balance or position? Or our GPA?


Where do you set your boundaries?

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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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