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A New Heart for the Valley Week 4, Day 1

by David Joynt on March 11, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 4, Day 1

MATTHEW 5:8

 

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god.”

 

Purity of heart is far more than the capacity we can have to avoid certain kinds of bodily deeds or mental pollutions. It is less about avoiding thoughts and actions than it is about the ability to have a singular, overriding purpose, a driving direction which unifies your whole life. Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Christian philosopher, called it being able to “will one thing.”

 

 

How pure is your heart, in the sense described above?

 

How easily can you stop in the midst of your active life and pray?

 

FAMILY LIFE

How well do the members of your family focus?

What inhibits our focus?

 

Tags: blessed, heart, purity

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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