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Marked Devotional 15

by David Joynt on March 20, 2022

Marked Devotional 15

MARK 8:36| 36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?

Cultures have priorities. Our culture has highly developed ways to care for our physical selves. We can monitor heart rate and measure body metrics with our wrist watches. We have gyms and personal trainers to advise on fitness, dieticians to help with proper food intake, doctors and therapists to beat back illness and repair injury, hospitals and health care systems for emergencies. There are pharmacological “solutions” for lost aspects of aging and new ways to work out virtually at home with experts from around the globe. Body care is huge.

Soul care is minimal. Many don’t acknowledge that they have a soul. Others don’t know or don’t prioritize its care. This is tragic. “What does it profit someone to win the whole world and lose their own soul?”

Do you have a plan to care for and develop your soul?

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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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