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Broken and the Blessed Week 7, Day 4

by David Joynt on February 22, 2017


DAY 46

ISAIAH 58 | MATTHEW 25:31-46

 

 

Peacemakers are also those who help with hunger and homelessness. Those who create jobs with capital and ingenuity and hard work are also peacemakers in a Biblical sense. Advocates for the poor and those who welcome the strangers in our midst, they too make God’s peace more real. Researchers who study economics, or development, or who create medical breakthroughs, they also come within the scope of this promise. Soldiers and those who constrain the forces of disorder, when they act justly and with last resort restraint can be considered peacemakers.

 

 

How do worship and peacemaking connect in Isaiah 58?

 

FAMILY TIME:

Has your understanding of peace grown this week?

 

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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