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Questions Week 9 Day 4

by David Joynt on June 28, 2017


 

LUKE 18:28-30

 

 

The Christian life has immense and tangible benefits. My deepest relationships have been formed within God’s family, and my greatest adventures initiated. It is through church traditions and activities that I’ve come to my deepest understandings of life and my place in it. But the Christian follower also knows sacrifice. Some easy or pleasurable paths are not taken. Some difficult and exhausting tasks are embraced. Some hard promises are kept. The needs of others and the will of God become more prominent than personal desires.

 

Yet Jesus promises that such sacrifices will lead to greater rewards, now and in the life to come.

 

 

What benefits have you received from your faith?

 

 

What sacrifices have you made?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

What is easy about Christian faith?

What is hard?

When has a sacrifice led to a reward for you?

 

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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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