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The Other Jesus, Week 4, Day 5

by David Joynt on June 28, 2018

The Other Jesus, Week 4, Day 5

MATTHEW 5:3

Now it is with complete conviction and full pastoral confidence that I want to reassure anyone reading this devotional—if you are worried about having committed an unforgivable sin, then you have not done so! There is a hardness of heart that deliberately and without regret, opposes God’s work. This attitude is far different from the ordinary waywardness and confusion which plagues us all. Anyone who understands their need for forgiveness, anyone who admits their faults, can be absolved of guilt and freed from shame. Blessed is the person who is poor in spirit.

Do you ever feel guilty?

Do our corporate acts of confession help with this?

FAMILY TIME

Complete the sentence: “I am sorry when I ……”

 

Tags: forgiveness, guilt

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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