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I Am Because You Are September 28, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on September 28, 2025

I Am Because You Are September 28, 2025 Devotional

JOHN 10:11a | 11a “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”

 

Our series title is Because I Am, You Are. Since the goal of the Christian life is to become more like Jesus, we can study His characteristics as a clue to our own best selves. He is the Good Shepherd and so we too, in addition to being His sheep, can be junior shepherds.

 

Each of us has a flock, a list of people in our care, a circle of family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors that are unique to us. We will have opportunities to lay down our lives for our list. This may be, as it was for Judean shepherds, in special moments of sacrifice, maybe even accompanying them in the valley of the shadow. But often it will be in day-to-day acts of compassion and love. Helping our folks find green pasture and still waters, restoring their souls.

 

Who is in your flock?

 

 

Gracious God,

Help me today to bless and care for the people You’ve entrusted to me. I ask in the name of the Good Shepherd.

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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