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VPC 2.0 Daily Devotional-44

by David Joynt on November 16, 2020


ACTS 2:42| 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

  The rapid growth of the early church was not the only encouraging sign for the first followers of Jesus. Another encouragement came from the “devotion of the members to the apostles’ teaching and prayers.” There was depth as well as breadth, growth in understanding, and spiritual practice, as well as participation. External development was matched by internal development.

 Some subjects can be mastered and set aside, their mysteries exhausted and their challenges conquered. Not so with our faith, there is unending depth within our Scriptures and an inexhaustible journey toward a full knowledge of God.

 

Are you excited to know more of Jesus’s teaching and God’s character?

 Are you excited to see other’s prayers?

 

Tags: teaching, prayers

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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