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A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 7

by David Joynt on March 03, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 2, Day 7

 

2 PETER 1:3-11, 14-18

 

Peter’s second letter, chapter one is full of strong conviction. He says that faith can be supported by goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. Our characters can deepen and grow, confirming our call and election until “entry into the Kingdom of our Lord is richly provided for you.” He can face the end of his own life calmly and with purpose. This conviction is rooted in the experience of worship he had on the mountaintop! Lived experience of God’s voice and Jesus’ glory sustains him. So it should us also.

 

Pray that in our worship God’s glory is manifest and his voice heard.

 

FAMILY TIME

Do you believe that God’s power gives us “everything we need for life and godliness?”

 

Tags: pray, worship

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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