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Christmas at the Movies: Week 3, Day 6

by David Joynt on December 22, 2017


1 John 4:7-12

 

Our energy is limited. We can only stay awake so many hours.
We can only accomplish so many tasks, run so many errands,
make so many calls. Our time too is a limited resource. No
manner of praying will make an hour one minute longer or extend
a day one hour more.

 

But as Joseph discovered, love and mercy and grace are not
limited resources. The more we love the greater our capacity to
love. Our hearts, when connected to the purposes and person of
God, grow in limitless ways. As we open our hearts, we find they
have additional room, like a house that keeps growing new wings.

 

 

Are you good at stewarding your limited resources of time,
energy, and money?

 

 

Are you good at taking the faith risks that expand your capacity to
love?

 

Tags: energy, money, resources, stewarding, time

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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