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Pray Without Ceasing, Week 9, Day 63

by David Joynt on August 03, 2019


PSALM 1:6 | For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.


Some warnings relate to specific acts or behaviors. The warnings in Psalm 1 are greater in scope and meaning. There are only two ways or paths that can ultimately be taken—a faithful and faith-filled path or a godless one. All other choices move in one of these two directions, toward life or toward death. This stark reality frames our living, or dying, and all our choosing.

This warning makes an interesting introduction to a book of prayers and songs. There is a lot at stake in how we pray and worship! Do you agree?

Tags: righteous, wicked

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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