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Questions Week 10, Day 5

by David Joynt on July 06, 2017


 

DEUTERONOMY 6:10-15

 

 

On my list of American challenges and deficits to pray about, I mention our drug epidemic, our obsession with pornography and various kinds of degrading entertainment. I pray for a new set of political virtues to temper our bitter rhetoric and deep divisions. I pray for the immigration crisis to come to a solution that balances security and humanity. I ask that our individualism will be responsible, and our success not become “affluenza.” I pray for our criminal justice system to be just. 

 

 

What do you pray for along these lines? 

 

 

What “other gods” are alluring for us as Americans?

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

What do each of you think is the biggest challenge we face as Americans?

 

Tags: america, pray

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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