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Real Devotional 38

by David Joynt on June 07, 2022

Real Devotional 38

JAMES 2:19 | 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.

A second form of faith is deeper than our public persona. That is our private beliefs. This is what we think we believe. You might call this our actual internal commitments. But James makes a telling point—even the demons acknowledged Jesus’ Lordship during His earthly ministry. Yet these same demons acted against God’s will to take captive and destroy others lives. We can be intellectually in line with the truth, but personally and morally living over against it.

Do your public and private beliefs align with each other?

Tags: beliefs, private, public

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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