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Everyday Saints Devotional 36

by David Joynt on February 06, 2022

Everyday Saints Devotional 36

MATTHEW 24:35 | 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

What a breathtaking claim! My words will remain when the whole cosmos passes away.

We live in a time that is thoroughly historicist in outlook and presumption. Most people believe that truth is a product of time and circumstance, a cultural artifact. Our age sees difference and variety and heterogeneity, not similarity and universality. Not only are claims to enduring value viewed with suspicion, but also are viewed as an authoritarian attempt by one group to impose its relative and self-serving truth on others.

Today rising generations are quick to see the norms of previous eras as outdated, irrelevant, or oppressive. Yet Jesus claims his teachings are not just perpetually relevant—they are eternally so!

Do you share this counter-cultural belief?

Tags: belief, counter-cultural

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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