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Invitation, Week 7, Day 49

by David Joynt on November 23, 2019

Invitation, Week 7, Day 49

LUKE 10:9 | Cure the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you’.


The kingdom we proclaim is not a creed or treaty but a concrete reality. God’s love is not a slogan but a power. Therefore words and deeds go together, cures and proclamation are connected. The deeds demonstrate the kingdom’s reality, the proclamation helps others join it, submitting to the rule of the king. The kingdom exists whenever Jesus rules hearts and minds.

Pray for our kingdom work in the Paiute neighborhood through MentorKids, for Family Promise as they help homeless families, and for our partnerships in Malawi

Tags: love, power, connection, words, proclamation, deeds, proclaim, sick, cures

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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