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Leading With a Disciplined Heart: Day 1

Do you have clear Kingdom values?

by David Joynt on July 31, 2016

Leading With a Disciplined Heart: Day 1

1 THESSALONIANS 5:14

“It is not the mountains we conquer, it is ourselves.”

                                                                 ~ Sir Edmund Hillary

 

Are you a self-disciplined disciple? The answer depends on the degree of your alignment. Some of us are like cars with faulty alignment—we point ourselves in a particular direction but end up drifting away from our chosen destination.

True alignment in our lives means that our expenditure of time and energy and resources is in line with our goals and values. We focus and work and invest in things that matter to God, in things that build his Kingdom, in things that last.

 

How true is your alignment?

Do you have clear Kingdom values?  

Tags: discipline, leading

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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