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Leading With an Encouraging Heart: Day 1

What is the basis of your confidence? Does it help you to be encouraging?

by David Joynt on July 17, 2016

Leading With an Encouraging Heart: Day 1

JOHN 1:3-5; 8:12

 

Jesus’ vision for His friends and disciples was powerful and inspiring. It was rooted not only in His confidence in them, but His assurance about the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God. He invited them to be lights knowing that He was the Light, a light no one could extinguish. He called them to be salt, trusting that someday everyone in every area of human endeavor would bow to his Lordship.  Jesus didn’t blanche at Pilate’s challenge or Satan’s tempting words because He knew that no earthy or demonic power could unseat God or destroy the divine plan.

 

What is the basis of your confidence?

Does it help you to be encouraging?

 

Tags: justice, encouraging

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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