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The Originals, Week 6, Day 2

by David Joynt on February 12, 2018


LUKE 2:52

 

Can you imagine having Jesus as your older brother? On the
good side, he never got angry with you, forgave your mistakes,
and seemed to know everything! On the other hand, he was
amazingly good, excellent in school beyond the knowledge of the
teachers, rarely, if ever, made Mom mad, and generally set an
impossible standard for those following. James must have loved
and resented his older brother, feeling both admiration and
jealousy.

 

 

We, too, have Jesus as our "older brother" when we are adopted
into his family. How do you feel about him?

 

Jesus' goodness always creates strong positive and negative
reactions in people. Have you observed this?

 

 

Does excellence and goodness and wisdom in others inspire you?
Or do these things make you envious?

 

Tags: adopted family

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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