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A New Heart for the Valley Week 1, Day 6

by David Joynt on February 23, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 1, Day 6

A NEW HEART FOR THE VALLEY

 

JOHN 4:16-18 | JOHN 4: 27-30

 

Notice the pattern described earlier in the week. The Samaritan woman needs a hew heart, but her past failures stand in the way. She goes at noon to the well because she doesn’t want to face the rejection that comes with failed relationships. Jesus names the source of her pain and guilt. He reveals his identity to her and gives her hope that she can reconnect with God, despite her past. She overcomes her social phobia and acts as the first missionary in John’s gospel, inviting her neighbors to come and see the Messiah.

 

 

Is there anyone whom you allow to name the things which block your spiritual renewal?

  

FAMILY TIME

Have you ever had a spiritual conversation in a public place?

If so, what happened?

If not, why not?

 

Tags: failures, new heart, rejection

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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