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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -50

by David Joynt on May 30, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -50

1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 | 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

How do you define faith? Faith is the power that activates and actuates the spiritual life. To pray we must have faith God will listen and respond with compassion to our vulnerabilities. To consult and obey God we must have faith in His direction and the truthfulness and reliability of His word. To belong to a Christian community it takes faith that you will find your place and have opportunities to grow and develop (even through the church is imperfect). You need faith in the reality of forgiveness to confess, faith in God’s provision to give, faith that the kingdom is coming to serve. One kind of faith is the capacity to move toward God without guarantees.

How will you exercise your faith today?

 

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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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