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The Upside Down World, Week 2, Day 7

by David Joynt on September 23, 2017


 

LUKE 7:29, 37; 8:1-3

MATTHEW 7:30, 39; 12:2, 24, 38

 

 

One surprise in Jesus’ ministry was who turned out to be productive soil and who did not. The serious religious people were hard soil, and some were distracted by love of money and success. It was tax collectors, common folks, women, and even Gentiles who responded to his teaching and ministry.

 

 

Are you surprised who does and who does not respond to Jesus?

 

 

Why didn’t the leaders, in general, respond to Jesus?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Why did unlikely people love Jesus?

 

Tags: productive soil

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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