envelop spinner search close plus arrow-right arrow-left facebook twitter

Questions Week 9, Day 6

by David Joynt on June 30, 2017


 

REVELATION 21:1-7

 

 

Heaven is a place of absolute security and safety. None of the things which threaten our well being have any power there. Disease and death are absent, accident and misfortune are missing, and evil has been defeated. Thus, there is no place for mourning, no experience of loss or suffering. Life’s brevity and fragility no longer condition and cloud our hearts. Creation does not groan any longer, but we know a glorious freedom from fear and sorrow.

 

 

What do you fear most? Where does this fear come from?

 

 

What do you most want freedom from?

 

 

Can you find the celebration theme in this passage?

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

If you could remove one bad thing from the world, what would it be?

Why did you pick this?

 

Tags: heaven

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.

More from Pastor Joynts Devotionals

return to Pastor Joynts Devotionals