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Thank God it's Monday Devotional 27

by David Joynt on September 30, 2022


1 PETER 3:15 | 15 but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you.

How should we pray for our teachers? I pray for Christians called to teach in several ways. One is for their capacity to be models. Even in settings where explicit faith discussion is forbidden or discouraged, there is an opportunity for believing teachers to be witnesses and influencers in the way they treat administrators, colleagues, and kids. My wife had a prayer group prior to the school day, open to anyone and so, was quickly identified by others at her school as a Christian (and a pastor’s wife). Then her attention to the needs of staff and leaders and children was associated with her faith. Outside of school, this led to many opportunities to befriend and share.

Pray for ways believing teachers can integrate faith and work.

Do you “have a word” for the hope that is in you, and a strategy to model it?

Tags: faith, hope, work, teachers

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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