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The Originals, Week 1, Day 1

by David Joynt on January 07, 2018


WEEK 1 | JOHN

 

DAY 1 | THE BELOVED DISCIPLE

JOHN 21:20-25

 

Did you ever watch a small child basking in the love of a parent?
Children soak in affection and attention, absorbing it without
hesitation or reserve. They remind us that life with Christ is
founded on our capacity to receive his love.

 

John, disciple and author of the fourth Gospel bearing his name, is
identified as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" or simply the
beloved. He was open to the love of his Lord and understood that
to know this love is to know freedom from fear and anxiety,
freedom from false pride and self-justification, freedom from
the hungry ego and the empty heart. We never outgrow our need
to soak in God's amazing love.

 

 

Do you take time every day to experience God's loving presence?

 

 

Read Psalm 139:1-18 and Ephesians 3:14-19 and hear these
passages as love letters addressed to you.

 

Tags: disciple, love

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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