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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 4, Day 24

by David Joynt on June 25, 2019


PSALM 84:4 | Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise.

The psalmist reflects on how lucky are the people who work and live in the Temple on a daily basis. I agree! I love church and have a hard time leaving most days. There is a powerful experience of depth, of authentic relationship, and of God’s activity. But unless you are a priest, or a retired Saint like Simean or Anna that lives in Jerusalem, you don’t have the option of daily Temple time.
That is why it is good to recall that we are God’s true temple. God indwells us through his spirit and we can encounter this presence in the everyday moments of school and work and home, as well as the “temple times.”

What has been your favorite worship space in your life?

What made it special?

Tags: worship, praise, happy

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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