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A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 1

by David Joynt on February 25, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 1

AN ADORING HEART

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

MARK 2:2-3

 

Some moments of revelation are a little disillusioning. Sometimes when the curtain is pulled back, we see not a wizard but a magician from Omaha, as in the Wizard of Oz. Having been mesmerized by live plays, I will never forget the shock of going backstage. Seeing half-dressed actors applying make-up between scenes made it much harder to “suspend my disbelief” once back in the audience.

 

There is no such moment of disappointment for Peter, James, and John. When the veil is lifted, Jesus is transfigured, and his divine glory is beautiful beyond words.

 

 

What impact does beauty have on you?

 

FAMILY TIME

How do you think you’d have reacted on the mountaintop with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah?

What would you have asked them?

 

Tags: beauty, glory

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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