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Detecting Christmas December 9 Devotional

by David Joynt on December 09, 2023


ACTS 1:7 | 7 He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

 

The return of Jesus, or the 2nd Advent, is the great hope that undergirds our faith. The power and love visible in his teachings and deeds in Palestine in the first century are to become universal and permanent features of our world. The peace he brought to human hearts is to be a global reality for our every society in the world. Despite many claims to the contrary, we don’t know when this will occur. The Bible is not a secret code of events we can rend off of or into current history. We don’t know when but we do know who and what. We know that evil will be judged and defeated, truth will triumph, the earth will be restored, and Jesus will be at the center of all things. This conviction helps us overcome the fears and anxieties of this current age.

 

What is your view of Jesus’ return?

 

 

Gracious God,

Give me faith in your final victory and help me accept that I can’t know when but I can trust in who will command and what will occur. Amen.

 

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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