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Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 1

What are you committed to with your whole heart? How can others tell?

by David Joynt on July 24, 2016

Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 1

PSALM 111:1-10

“Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.”  ~ Isaac Burrow

There are all kinds of things we wish we hadn’t done. Words we wish we could take back, deeds we’d like to undo. Thank goodness God forgives our sins and mistakes! But even more powerful are the things we wish we had done. The investments we should have made, the relationships we should have nurtured, the causes we should have fought for.

It is the things we commit to that give our lives their shape and meaning. It is crucial to choose our commitments with care.

 

What are you committed to with your whole heart?

How can others tell?

Make the first verse of this Psalm your theme for today.

Tags: commitment, leadership

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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