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Leading With a Growing Heart: Day 6

Have you become more or less forgiving over time? Think of someone you need to forgive. Pray that as you do, your heart will grow.

by David Joynt on June 17, 2016

Leading With a Growing Heart: Day 6

MATTHEW 6:12
COLOSSIANS 3:13

The growing heart of a leader also comes from certain practices. There are spiritual steps that lengthen our stride. There are spiritual exercises that develop our stamina. Forgiveness is one. As we practice forgiveness, we become more forgiving, and our ability to understand and bless others increases.

As every parent knows, when you have children, you discover new territory in your heart. When you love someone, you become more loving. Your capacity for love expands.

Have you become more or less forgiving over time?
Think of someone you need to forgive. Pray that as you do, your heart will grow.

Tags: growing, 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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