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Easter Hearts, Week 3, Day 1

by David Joynt on April 22, 2018

Easter Hearts, Week 3, Day 1

WEEK 3 | “HONEST HEARTS”

 

JOHN 20:24-29

 

The Resurrection makes our world and our lives into places of encounter. You won’t meet Mohammed today or tomorrow. You can’t run into the Buddha or Joseph Smith this week. There will not be a moment of surprising connection with Confucius that alters your calendar. But Jesus is alive and on the loose. He can be encountered in the here and now. Thomas, in our passage for today, met his crucified Lord and touched his healed wounds and heard his voice.

 

Have you encountered Jesus?

 

Have you shared your encounter?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Do you know anyone who “tells it like it is?”

 

What do you make of Thomas’ reaction to the other disciples’ insistence that Jesus is alive?

 

Tags: resurrection

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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