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A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 2

by David Joynt on February 26, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 2

AN ADORING HEART

 

MARK 9:14 | MARK 12:27

 

Want some additional evidence for the Resurrection? How about a dead Moses present with a long-gone Elijah conversing with Jesus on the mountaintop! As Jesus said pointedly to the Sadducees, who mocked the idea of a life beyond life, God is not the God of the dead but the Living.

 

Moses was the great giver of the law and so represented the Torah, and Elijah was the greatest of the prophets. Together they say Old Testament, law and prophets, and they find their true location in history in relation to Jesus, who fulfills and deepens the law and makes real the hopes of the prophets.

 

 

Do you read the Old Testament?  

Do you read it in relation to Jesus?

 

FAMILY TIME

What is your favorite story about Moses?

How about Elijah?

 

Tags: elijah, moses

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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