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The Upside Down World, Week 11, Day 6

by David Joynt on November 24, 2017


LUKE 11:11-12


Only abusive parents would respond to a child’s hungry request for dinner by supplying, not fish sticks, but a live rattlesnake. It would be criminal to serve a poisonous scorpion instead of a cheese omelet! These scary and ludicrous possibilities again provide a contrast—God knows the difference between a good gift and a bad one. Our instinctive trust for those who love us, like hopefully our Dads and Moms, should be true too of our attitude to God.


Notice the blunt realism of Jesus’ anthropology—”you who are evil.” What is your anthropology like?


Do you trust God?

Tags: trust

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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