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Christmas at the Movies: Week 2, Day 4

by David Joynt on December 13, 2017


DAY 11

WEDNESDAY | DECEMBER 13, 2017

Luke 5:1-11

 

The same principle is visible in the crew of disciples Jesus
assembled. Matthew was a tax collector, an accountant with a
grudge, who had betrayed his ancestry and faith by profiting from
the misery of his people and working for the occupying Roman
power. Andrew and Peter and James and John were uneducated
fishermen from Galilee, experts in boats and bait, not scripture
and ministry. The crew Jesus chose to change the world, the
group he invested in to lead his movement, were ordinary,
undistinguished, and in the eyes of the world, unimportant. But
Jesus saw them as the salt of the earth and light of the world,
saints in the making.

 

 

Do you have a favorite disciple? Why?

 

 

Thank God for the work of the first disciples and their faithful
witness.

 

 

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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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