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by David Joynt on August 08, 2025


JOHN 8:32 | 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

 

There are many ways to seek, protect, and love the truth. Detectives try to solve crimes, researchers delve into scientific mysteries, and reporters seek to distinguish facts from spin. Creative writers or podcasters or documentary film makers can be truth seekers when they tell the stories of people whose voices might otherwise be lost or ignored. Historians sift through documents to unearth new        perspectives that change our view of past events—they too are honoring the ninth command in what they do. Psychiatrists and counselors help us see inconvenient or invisible things about ourselves and are also advancing the truth.

 

How are you pursuing the truth and advancing it?

 

 

Gracious God,

Thank You for everyone who seeks and advances the truth in every area of our common life. Help me seek the truth in relation to my own heart and my own sphere.

Amen.

 

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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