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Broken and the Blessed Week 1, Day 5

by David Joynt on January 12, 2017


DAY 5

GENESIS 2: 15-24

GENESIS 3 

The Adam and Eve stories offer a narrative version of this same truth. They portray a couple blessed in every way, located within a creation that is beautiful and fruitful. They have work and purpose, they know love and intimacy, they are connected to their gracious creator. Through their own choices every good gift they’ve been given is marred and spoiled, every task becomes complicated and every relationship broken.

Read these chapters and note the compact yet comprehensive way the human problem is described. What forms of brokenness can you identify?

FAMILY TIME—

How many awesome and amazing things are part of creation in Genesis 1? Find as many as you can.

 

Tags: creation, devotional, the broken and the blessed

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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