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The Upside Down World, Week 2, Day 4

by David Joynt on September 20, 2017


 

MATTHEW 15:7

 

Inattention, Opposition, and Competition. You and I only have so much time and energy and focus to give to things and people. Some seed is unproductive because it gets choked off—the limited supply of nutrients and water goes to “weeds and thorns.” In particular, the anxieties and cares of our world and the desire for success begin to command all our mental and emotional energy. Power, money, and recognition are cultural obsessions, but they must not be ours.

 

 

What competes for your psychic and spiritual energies?

 

FAMILY TIME—

What is most distracting for you in your life?

See if one of you can solve a puzzle while another family member distracts them.

 

Tags: competition, inattention, opposition

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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