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Leading With an Ordered Heart: Day 1

Examine the Ten Commandments as a set of priorities. How do your values match up?

by David Joynt on August 21, 2016

Leading With an Ordered Heart: Day 1

EXODUS 20:1-11, 12-17 

The structure of the Ten Commandments reveals the way human hearts should be ordered. The first four commands are God centered, or theological, the second six are social or ethical. Our first priority should be our relationship with God, and this priority then gives order and substance to all our human relationships.

Family life, love life, economic life, and character and community can only flourish if there is genuine religious devotion, expressed in allegiance, obedience, and worship.

Examine the Ten Commandments as a set of priorities. How do your values match up?

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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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