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VPC 2.0 Daily Devotional-42

by David Joynt on November 14, 2020


JEREMIAH 29:12-13 | 12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. 13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart.

 Jeremiah reports God’s desire that we seek Him wholeheartedly. Every faith community is situated in a particular way and must assess its challenges and opportunities. God must be sought in particular places and situations.

 The Israelites needed to seek God in the disaster of the exile. We must seek Him in the 21st century, amid our own problems and struggles. What are the opportunities created by COVID-19? By rampant and largely uninformed secularism? By mainline collapse?

 I am certain there are chances to grow and develop, as people and as communities of faith, made possible by the “disasters” we are experiencing.

 How is God at work in our 21st century challenges?

 

Tags: struggles, challenges

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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