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Broken and the Blessed Week 7, Day 3

by David Joynt on February 21, 2017


DAY 45

HEBREWS 12:14

 Who are the peacemakers? Those who help individuals and families find healing through counseling. Those who mediate disputes and find legal compromises. Those who help the sick, the addicted, and the troubled, bringing health where there was disease, freedom where there was slavery, and order where there was confusion. Those who teach the values upon which community depends and model the virtues that give it substance. Those who restrain evil and punish wrongs, reinforcing law and justice.

Pray for someone you know engaged in a peacemaking task.

 

FAMILY TIME:

Thank someone you know who is a peacemaker.

Write them a family note.

 

 

Tags: blessed, peacemakers

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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