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Body Building Daily Devotional- 65

by David Joynt on November 15, 2021


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

By implication, we are surrounded by a greater cloud of witnesses than the first generations of Christian disciples. We can count not only the men and women of the Old Testament and Israelite history in our chorus of support, but all the subsequent saints of two millennia of history. Leaders, intellectuals, advocates, writers, preachers, healers, and helpers—we are cheered by an enormous and distinguished company. Starting with the letter A for St. Augustine and going to Z for the third century saint Zoe, there have been thousands and thousands of amazing servants who lived and loved and built the kingdom.

Who are your favorite disciples from ‘Christian’ history?

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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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