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Broken and the Blessed Week 6, Day 4

by David Joynt on February 15, 2017


DAY 39

EPHESIANS 4:17-24

Purity is a gift and a struggle. One of the things which complicates the struggle for purity is the simple, and at times overwhelming, fact that our culture does not value purity. American popular culture, in the form of books, movies, television, education, and general commentary, seems almost universally to value sensual experience and self-indulgence. The only reason to forego a pleasure, temporarily, might be to achieve another primary goal, like competing and winning an athletic contest. Otherwise, we have become a common culture that places no value on purity for its own sake, let alone as a means for moving toward spiritual depth or growth.

 

Who do you know that has a pure heart?

How can you tell?

 

FAMILY TIME:

How does your family protect the minds and hearts of its members from images and ideas that degrade?

Discuss.

 

 

 

 

 

Tags: deliver, purity, tempation

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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