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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -37

by David Joynt on May 17, 2021


1 JOHN 4:7-8|  7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

The chapel windows show the rapid, massive development of the cosmos, beginning with the big bang shown on the South end. Robert McCall and his wife, Louise, decided to put the cross at the center of the North wall, and in the heart of the expanding universe. This was not an aesthetic maneuver but rather a theological claim. In a world dominated by movement and change, where space and time are in constant motion, there is a centering constant. That is God’s eternal love. Love is His nature and He is its source and the life that flows from Him is ordered toward it, despite the decay and rebellion that, for a time, challenge love’s supremacy.

How have you experienced God’s love today?

 

Tags: love, god, experienced

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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