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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 9, Day 58

by David Joynt on July 29, 2019


PSALM 1:1 | Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers.

The world is full of advice! Self-proclaimed experts and determined sales people and politicians and teachers and parents and pastors and friends—all offer advice. Who do you listen to?

Some advisors are wicked. They intend to manipulate or harm us, to take our resources or diminish our lives.

Some offer examples of ways to live that lead to dead ends, encouraging us to indulge every passion or find our freedom in breaking rules or conforming to the wrong authorities.

Some are hyper-critical, destroying the integrity of people and traditions and practices through criticism that becomes cynicism. For them nothing is sacred or beautiful or true. Avoid these advisors.

Who do you listen to?

Tags: happiness, wicked, advice

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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