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Body Building Daily Devotional- 64

by David Joynt on November 14, 2021

Body Building Daily Devotional- 64

HEBREWS 12:1a| 1aTherefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.

The crowd impacts the game. The audience affects the play or concert. You and I have an audience, a crowd, that is cheering us on. The author of Hebrews sensed that the heroes of previous generations were supporting the efforts of the current generation of God followers. He mentions Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Sampson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets. Chapter 11 is a great compendium of faithful and courageous ancestors, servants of God of whom, “the world was not worthy.”

You come from a famous line!

Do you sense a connection to the previous heroes of the faithful?

Do you feel supported by a crowd of witnesses?

Tags: faithful, connection, crowd, heroes

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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