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Praising Together for Tomorrow: Day 6

Are you narrow or eclectic in your musical preferences? What do you love about VPC worship?

by David Joynt on November 04, 2016


PSALM 98 

Two thousand years of inspired music, sifted through time and culture. Powerful creations emerging all over the globe in the present tense. Why divide the work of God’s spirit through musicians and composers with the broad and unhelpful categories of “traditional” and “contemporary?”  Everything now considered traditional was once contemporary! The term contemporary hides a dozen genres, none of which match, exactly, the shifting flavors of pop culture. Why not erase the lines? Why not create a distinctive worship culture, both broad and deep at VPC? Why not draw from every time and place, the music best suited to grow and flourish in our soil? Tradition needs reinterpretation to live and breathe. The now needs the past for depth and truth.

 

Are you narrow or eclectic in your musical preferences?

What do you love about VPC worship?

Family Focus - Find a favorite hymn and tell your family why you love it.

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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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