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Leading With a Courageous Heart: Day 6

How easy do you find it to disappoint expectations? Does Jesus’ agenda ever disappoint you?

by David Joynt on June 10, 2016

Leading With a Courageous Heart: Day 6

MATTHEW 21:8-9
LUKE 24:13-23

Jesus had a courageous heart! He rewrote the rules for being a Messiah. In doing so, He disappointed most Israelites, defying their expectations for a powerful liberator from political oppression. By offering freedom from spiritual oppression, He upset the calculus. This is most visible in the way cheers became jeers in Holy Week. Jesus’ emphasis on keeping the vulnerable, rescuing the needy, standing up for the exploited, and finding the lost, is just as challenging to live out today as it was to understand in the first century.

How easy do you find it to disappoint expectations?
Does Jesus’ agenda ever disappoint you?

Tags: courageous, leading

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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