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Day 48: Understanding

Which of these elements do you find most encouraging?

by David Joynt on May 27, 2016


JOHN 16:12-15

It is encouraging to think that the Spirit is God’s gift to direct us toward the truth. In a doubtful world it is reassuring that there is truth to be discovered. It is helpful and hopeful to think that God’s Spirit can help us to see something of the future, and to sense how He is at work amid the ups and downs of today. It is comforting to be told that God’s character is fully known and defined in Jesus’ life and that we can therefore trust His Father is our Father.


Which of these elements do you find most encouraging? 

Tags: devotional, encountering, understanding

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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