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A New Heart for the Valley Week 1, Day 2

by David Joynt on February 19, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 1, Day 2

A NEW HEART FOR THE VALLEY

 

EZEKIEL 36:26b

 

Our theme verse for this series has two parts: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

 

There is a kind of surgery involved in receiving a new heart from God—our stone hearts must be removed! Some things in our attitudes prevent spiritual renewal.

 

 

Are you willing to undergo “spiritual surgery?”

 

What most needs to be removed from your heart?

 

FAMILY TIME

Recall a time when a member of your family successfully went through a surgery.

Describe how their life was changed.

Talk about the surgery God wants to do on our hearts.

 

Tags: heart, new heart, spirit

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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