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Questions Week 8 Day 7

by David Joynt on June 24, 2017


DAY 28

REVELATION 21:1-5, 22:1-5


Chronic pain is different than temporary pain. Knowing suffering will end changes how we experience it. The world’s “chronic pain” is temporary, the Bible tells us. In breathtaking passages of poetic power, we learn that the broken cosmos will be remade and renewed. Scripture concludes with two great chapters on this theme. Healing, freedom, joy, and life itself become not just fleeting experiences but deep and permanent realities which displace fear and sorrow and suffering and death.


See how many different kids of renewal are promised in these chapters. Which one excites you the most?



FAMILY TIME— What is one thing that should be different about the world? Pray for things to change and tell your children about the future God is bringing about.

Tags: healing, joy, suffering

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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