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A New Heart for the Valley Week 6, Day 2

by David Joynt on March 26, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 6, Day 2

A GENERATIONAL HEART

 

LUKE 18:15-17

 

Since all go through the life stages, every generation can mentor and provide an example for younger ones. Since as we age, earlier periods of our life are still part of our identity, every age can help remind us of how time blesses and shapes us in God’s providence. Other generations bring distinct angles of vision and outlook. We need each other.

 

Jesus’ age venerated the old and ignored the young. In our passage, which is very close to that first Palm Sunday, Jesus destroys this attitude by making children a model for discipleship. In our age, the young are venerated, and the old often ignored. This, too, is a profound mistake.

 

 

Why do we not respect age?

 

What is wrong with living in “cohorts?”

 

FAMILY TIME

Ask a person older than you and one younger than you a question today.

 

Tags: blessings, generations

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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