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Questions Week 12, Day 2

by David Joynt on July 17, 2017


 

ISAIAH 40:8

 

 

One of the reasons I trust the Bible is relational. I know so many wonderful and brilliant people who trust the Bible and follow its guidance. My brilliant professor in college, Dr. Doug Feaver, was an expert in Hellenistic life and language and also held scripture as a sacred gift. Two of my favorite philosophers, John Hare and Basil Mitchell, were similarly committed to the Bible. So many great scientists, like John Polkinghorne, and great social reformers like Martin Luther King and William Wilberforce, entrusted their lives to the truths they learned within the Old and New Testaments. My best colleagues, my most admirable friends, my parents, and my wife—I’m surrounded by people who find the Bible to be worthy of trust and obedience.

 

 

Do you know someone whom you admire, who trusts the Bible?

 

Memorize today’s verse.

 

FAMILY TIME—

Is there a better guide for life than the Bible?

 

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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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