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A New Heart for the Valley Week 5, Day 1

by David Joynt on March 18, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 5, Day 1

WEEK 5

A SINGLE HEART

DAY 29

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

SUNDAY | MARCH 18, 2018

JEREMIAH 32:36-39

 

Jeremiah spoke for God to the people of Israel in their captivity, promising a return to their land and a new unity: “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for all time, for their own good and the good of their children after them.” There are different forms of unity. There is a legal unity and procedural unity and geographic unity. But here God intends a unity that is deeper than these forms. God desires and makes possible a unity of heart encompassing values and relationships, and a unity of “way,” focusing on shared purpose.

 

 

When have you known deep unity?

 

How as it achieved?

 

 

 

FAMILY TIME

What gives your family its unity?

Shared history?

Shared spaces?

Shared practices?

Shared faith?

 

Tags: unity

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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