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Life Happens Here May 20, 2026 Devotional

by David Joynt on May 20, 2026

Life Happens Here May 20, 2026 Devotional

FRAME

The discipline of confession draws us to a place of dependence in God. We know we cannot navigate this world alone and left to our own devices we stumble down paths we do not want for ourselves. In confession, God wakens us up to our waywardness and provides a pathway home through forgiveness. God fills us up with grace and mercy so that we can be a people of grace and mercy in this world.

 

Prayer of Confession

-Prayerfully consider the events of the past few days.

-Seek forgiveness for those actions and attitudes that are not of God.

-Pray that God would fill you with grace and mercy.

-Is the Spirit leading you to bring grace and mercy to a person or situation?

 

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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