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Celebrate! May 5, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on May 05, 2025


PSALM 119:93 | 93 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.

 

If yesterday’s insights stand, then every generation must make critical decisions about what truths and skills they pass on to the next one. We must each ask ourselves what wisdom we have, and how will we share it. Some will pass it on as parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles. Some will teach it in classrooms or write it in books or articles. Some will preach it. Others will encourage younger generations on sports fields or stages or in labs or boardrooms, as junior colleagues. Some of these encounters will be formal, when we serve as bosses or coaches or directors. Others will be informal—in the context of friendships or community moments. Sometimes our influence will be unknown to us because others are watching and learning from our words and behavior.

 

What insights are you eager to pass on?

 

 

Gracious God,

Help me to influence this world by passing on truth and wisdom. Open avenues of influence that I can see and enter.

Amen.

 

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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