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VPC 2.0 Daily Devotional-18

by David Joynt on October 21, 2020


JOSHUA 24:15b | 15b “but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Everyone serves one god or another. That means every life
reveals the god that is served. The addict serves the substance as his god, and his friends and family know it. The driven achiever serves success, the vain person adulation. In the final analysis, and in many revealing moments along the way, each of our lives witnesses to something.

Joshua chooses the witness he wants to display, and he does so in a dramatic, public moment. He sets an example, he wields his
influence, he casts his vote, for Yahweh, the Lord.

Where did you last declare your faith?

Who set a public or private example for you?

 

Tags: witness, influence, serves

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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