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Leading With an Ordered Heart: Day 2

by David Joynt on August 22, 2016

Leading With an Ordered Heart: Day 2

EXODUS 20:11-17 

What happens if the first four commands have no purchase in our lives? Then parents are dishonored and families unstable, violence is more prevalent, faithfulness wanes, theft and lying become a plague, and a spirit of covetous dissatisfaction undermines peace and happiness. Moral and social order on the outside of our lives, in our relationships, rests on internal, spiritual order. Only God can help us order our hearts and free us from greed and selfishness and anxiety and all the other psychic and emotional conditions that impact our outlook, perception, and behavior.

How do you think we are doing, in America, with the second set of six social commands?

How are we doing at VPC?

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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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