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Leading With a Passionate Heart: Day 1

How do you set yourself on fire? What is growing your passion right now?

by David Joynt on August 28, 2016

Leading With a Passionate Heart: Day 1

PSALM 42:1-2

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must first set yourself on fire. ~ Reggie Leach

Which gifts of God increase your passion for Him? Perhaps it is the quiet stillness of the morning, as the sun lights up to the eastern sky? Maybe it is ever new depths of scripture, integrating life and faith, speaking fresh truths? It could be songs that soar, conversations that prod and enlighten, retreats that reorient, services that show God’s presence amid our struggles. For some, it is the long, slow fight for justice in Jesus’ name.

Whatever quickens your spiritual pulse and widens your eyesight—pursue it.

How do you set yourself on fire?

What is growing your passion right now?

Tags: leading, passionate

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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