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Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 7

Yet all of this provides an opportunity for us—will we lead with honest hearts? When have you seen dishonesty complicate life?

by David Joynt on August 13, 2016

Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 7

PROVERBS 12:19B, 22

"BUT A LYING TONGUE LASTS ONLY A MOMENT."

"THE LORD DETESTS LYING LIPS."

The next verses in Proverbs warn about the disasters that accrue from acting with a dishonest heart. Spiritual progress stalls because denial blocks the way. Trust is lost. Life becomes complicated and expensive. Think of all those whose job it is to detect fraud! Think of the staggering cost to us and to society of all of the scams and deceptions. Protecting untruths means more lying and additional layers of falsity. Communication is complicated because in every exchange there has to be a discount of claims due to exaggerations. Skepticism grows. Every public lie drains the pool of belief in shared life and practices.

Yet all of this provides an opportunity for us—will we lead with honest hearts?

When have you seen dishonesty complicate life?

Tags: honesty, 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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