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Detecting Christmas December 29 Devotional

by David Joynt on December 29, 2023


1 john 1:5 | 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

 

This is a breathtaking paragraph — cosmic in scope, seismic in significance. It states that the logos through which all things were created has entered history in the person of Jesus. Creation, and life itself, originates with Him. There is one person at the heart of everything. This means every single story finds its true meaning in relation to him. Life cannot be “a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.” It is a story of love and light, that overcomes darkness, decay and death. Triumphant relationships are the goal God has for his creation, and redemption is the core of the story.

 

Can you conceive that all the complexities of life constitute a single story?

 

 

Gracious God,

You create, redeem, and renew. Your word, which became human in Jesus, is at the center of all things! Hallelujah!

 

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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