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Under Construction, Week 8, Day 50

by David Joynt on September 29, 2019

Under Construction, Week 8, Day 50

JOHN 14:1 | Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God, believe also in me.

You and I get troubled!  No one sails along through life, genuinely engaged and invested in people and projects and escapes trouble.  We are sensitive to pain, I ourselves and others, both emotional and physical.  We see the way the world falls short of God’s intentions.  We empathize and sympathize with the broken and the hurting, the excluded and the disadvantaged.  We rebel against injustice and get frustrated when wrongs are ignored or perpetuated.  We lament tragedy and disaster.  We feel the restrictions of age acutely. 

We get troubled!

What troubles you personally?  Ecclesially?  Nationally? 
Globally?

 

Tags: believe, trouble, troubled

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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