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The Upside Down World, Week 2, Day 1

by David Joynt on September 17, 2017


WEEK 2

“SOIL SAMPLES”

LUKE 8:5-8 | MATTHEW 13:1-9

 

Farming, for us, is an industry more than a way of life. Jesus’ audience could probably see farmers working in the background while they taught. Almost everyone would have been familiar with the agricultural practices of the day. What we know of them comes from a few passages like Jeremiah 4:3, Isaiah 28:24-25, and Hosea 10:11-12, as well as archaeological evidence. What would have caught the crowd’s attention was the enormous yield from the good soil. This parable primarily promises God’s crop will be a bumper one!

 

 

Have you ever been to or worked on a farm?

  

FAMILY TIME—

Look up the O.T. passages and share what you learn.

 

Tags: farming, soil, yield

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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