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DAY 3: Restoration

How well does your faith stand up to skepticism? How would you gently defend your faith in the Resurrection?

by David Joynt on April 12, 2016

DAY 3: Restoration

1 Peter 3:15-16

These kinds of reasons to trust in the Resurrection, and the other six which follow on coming Mondays, cannot replace an encounter with Jesus, but they can pave the way for one. We may know or meet people who find the idea of the Resurrection difficult. They are in good company! The first male disciples struggled to accept it until they had experiences, that were powerful and compelling, with the Resurrected One. We are encouraged to have reason for the hope that lives within us, and we are encouraged to present those reasons with gentleness and reverence.

How well does your faith stand up to skepticism?
How would you gently defend your faith in the Resurrection?

Tags: restoration, resurrection, devotional, encountering

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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