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A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 4

by David Joynt on February 28, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 4

MARK 9:5-6

 

Peter’s reaction to Jesus’ dazzling transformation and to the presence of Moses and Elijah is a kind of comical babbling. He is “terrified”—not in the sense of afraid but just over-awed. Yet his instinct for getting out the tools and building a retreat center isn’t completely ridiculous.

 

True worship is moving. We want to prolong it. We desire to dwell in the moment. We are not eager to “get onto the next thing” or to “get it over with.” We are too absorbed to be counting minutes, and we want more.

 

 

Do you ever allow yourself to forget the time?

 

Do you ever lose track of it in worship?

 

 

FAMILY TIME

What is your favorite part of worship?

 

Tags: worship

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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