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Broken and the Blessed Week 5, Day 2

by David Joynt on February 06, 2017


DAY 30

EPHESIANS 6:1-5

 Being full of mercy requires understanding others. Behind their behavior lies struggles, influences, and challenges. Perhaps someone had demanding parents whose dissatisfaction left them feeling inadequate. This may lead to an overly critical attitude. Perhaps a relationship gone wrong has scarred your friends’ attitude toward love, or rejection has made them fearful of commitment. Sometimes unrealized ambition can make us cynical. Understanding the burdens someone carries, the people they are supporting, the pressures they are under, can tenderize our hearts as we relate to them.

 Is there someone you struggle to relate to? Pray for greater understanding of them.

 

FAMILY TIME:

Share a hard experience from your growing up times and how it has impacted you.

 

 

Tags: blessed, mercy

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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