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Thank God it's Monday Devo 43 Oct 16

by David Joynt on October 16, 2022

Thank God it's Monday Devo 43 Oct 16

MATTHEW 5:9 | 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Blessed are the “shalom bringers!” Our great God has a deeper vision of peace than the pictures current in our culture. Shalom is a comprehensive set of flourishing relationships: between God and human beings among all members of the human family, and between men and women and creation itself. We often think of peace negatively, as the absence of war and conflict. The scriptures describe shalom positively, as the harmonious and loving experience of true community and deep friendship. Shalom implies that each person is internally whole and every barrier to genuine life has been overcome.

 Can you imagine a world where there is no violence or jealousy or exploitation? A world without misunderstanding, in which evil has no foothold?

 

Tags: vision, peace

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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