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A New Heart for the Valley Week 6, Day 7

by David Joynt on March 31, 2018


LUKE 23:50-56

 

The Jewish Sabbath, which followed Jesus’ suffering and death, is called by Christians Holy Saturday. It was a day of deep silence, when words could not express the reality of the loss, the end of the dream, the depth of the sorrow. It was a moment when the disciples felt as if death and darkness and evil would have a final victory over life and light and goodness.

 

 

Have you ever experienced these powers of death, darkness, and evil?

 

Have you ever known a silence too deep and too painful for words?

 

FAMILY TIME

Pray for everyone who faces an enemy they cannot overcome, an injustice they cannot resist, or an outcome they cannot reverse.

 

Tags: darkness, death, evil

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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