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The Upside Down World, Week 3, Day 2

by David Joynt on September 25, 2017


 

LUKE 15:1-10 CONTINUED

 

This chapter is about the suffering and joy of God. Losing sheep is a shepherd’s nightmare! It means leaving the flock to search for the missing one, it means worrying that wolves or other predators might attack, it means anxious hours calling and searching. Coins were often perforated and put into a necklace as a wedding memento, like our wedding rings. Losing a coin would be like losing your wedding ring and a frantic search would ensue. God is not a casual seeker, indifferent to the outcome of the search. He is desperate to recover his children.

 

 

Do you share God’s concern for those in danger—the confused, the rebellious, the isolated? 

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

Recall times when you were lost and times you had to find someone.

What did it feel like?

 

Tags: suffering and joy

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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