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Christmas Playlist Devotional 4

by David Joynt on December 01, 2021


EPHESIANS 1:9-10a | 9 God has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10 as a plan for the fullness of time.

Christ was born at the right time, historically speaking, for the news about him to spread internationally. But even better his birth fulfilled time itself. Time has a history and a purpose. It began at the moment of creation and was crucial to the love story that started with God’s desire to make chronological creatures to love and relate to. The decisive moment in that love story, and in the process we call history, came with Jesus’ arrival. He came to fill history full of purpose, redeeming its broken patterns, sharing God’s original intent for us, and offering a pathway for renewal and transformation within the flow of human events. Human time and history became full with God’s healing and truth and love!

How full and fulfilled is your time?

 

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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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