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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -54

by David Joynt on June 03, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -54

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

Why is love the greatest gift and virtue? We learned earlier that love must motivate and shape our use of every other spiritual gift, including speech, prophecy, generosity, and sacrifice. Also love is a constitutive element for faith and for hope. Faith is ultimate trust in God’s love. Hope is the belief that love will last and conquer into the future.

Every other spiritual virtue is dependent on love.

What is the best thing you have ever done in the name of love?

What is the worst thing?

 

Tags: best, worst, name of love

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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