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The Upside Down World, Week 3, Day 3

by David Joynt on September 26, 2017


 

LUKE 15:6-7, 9-10, 22-23

 

For God, nothing is better than “finding.” The celebration of this chapter is a key to understanding the heart of God. There is joy in recovery. God is like a car fanatic who restores a classic model to a condition better than new, with painstaking care. He is like the woman who removes layers of grime and paint that obscure the original splendor of a painting. And when the restoration is complete, when the recovery is finished, he wants to celebrate and share his delight in the renewal with everyone.

 

The church should be a place where the lost are found and where the celebrations are many and deep.

 

 

Have you helped God find someone?

 

Do you think of God as the source of our deepest joy?

 

FAMILY TIME—

What makes a good party?

 

Tags: celebration, 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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