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The Upside Down World, Week 11, Day 4

by David Joynt on November 22, 2017


LUKE 11:7-8


This parable has a tongue-in-cheek quality. In the Middle Eastern cultural context, everyone jumps out of bed at the neighbor’s knock, and no one says “Go away, the family is settled for the night!” Such behavior would be shocking and culpable. Jesus is contrasting our behavior with that of our heavenly Father. If we understand how to be hospitable, does God not know how to respond to our needs? God is not like a callus friend too lazy to help us, who only responds if we threaten to wake up the children and ring the door bell all night. He is eager to help and bless us!


Do you underestimate God?


Does that effect how you pray?



FAMILY TIME— Talk about how God has answered prayers in your lives.

Tags: hospitable

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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