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Questions Week 8 Day 4

by David Joynt on June 21, 2017


DAY 25

EPHESIANS 6:10-17


The fourth point scripture makes about suffering is that we have an enemy, whose goal is to destroy us. We are in a battle, spiritually speaking. It is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of darkness. Anyone who has struggled with addiction understands the concept of wrestling with an evil power. Visiting the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem reminded me of what happens when human beings give themselves over to an evil project, losing their humanity in the process, seeing terrible things as good and good things as awful.


Read our passage today and reflect on the battle armor we are given. Which pieces do you use? Which do you neglect?


FAMILY TIME— How can we recognize something evil? Talk about the way our faith helps us to see evil around us and resist it.

Tags: spiritual battle, suffering

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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