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Solid Joys Daily Devotional — 365 episodes

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Why We Should Love Our Enemies

2

Go on to the Meal

3

A People for His Name

4

What It Means to Love God

5

Pleased with His Precepts

6

Don’t Serve God

7

Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy

8

Seven Sources of Joy

9

A Dangerous Motive

10

How to Ask Forgiveness

11

God Demonstrates His Love

12

Dirty Rags No More

13

Fifteen Tactics for Joy

14

The Day Is at Hand

15

The Great Exchange

16

You Were Made for God

17

Paul’s Salvation Was for You

18

The Liberating Power of Forgiveness

19

Seek Your City’s Good

20

Five Reasons to Be Fearless

21

The Key to Radical Love

22

Afraid to Stray

23

A Future for Failures

24

God, Touch Our Hearts

25

Embracing Jesus

26

Mercy for Today

27

Don’t Be Like the Mule

28

Pray for His Fame

29

Talk to Your Tears

30

You Cannot Lose in the End

31

The Great King’s Wine

32

What Is Well-Placed Shame?

33

Talk to God, Not Just About Him

34

Make Satan Know His Defeat

35

What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy

36

Two Ways to Remember Jesus

37

The Books at the Judgment

38

God Strengthens Us Through Others

39

How to Respond When You Falter

40

Better Than Everest

41

Two of Our Deepest Needs

42

What Binds the Hands of Love?

43

If He Calls, He Keeps

44

As Sure as God’s Love for His Son

45

When Everyone Deserts You

46

10 Results of the Resurrection

47

How to Delight in God’s Word

48

Forever Satisfied

49

Ministry and the Fear of Man

50

Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness

51

Satan’s Candy Store

52

God’s Best Promise

53

Jesus Died for This Moment

54

A Six-Point Summary of the Gospel

55

Why We Must Hold Fast Our Hope

56

Prayer’s Exclamation Point

57

Jesus Will Finish the Mission

58

Subversive for the Savior

59

The Triumph Is Sure

60

Jesus Is God’s Amen

61

When the Potter Is for Us

62

Two Infinitely Strong and Tender Truths

63

Let Us Adore the Lamb

64

God Cares for You

65

Open the Windows of Your Heart

66

How Can I Be Filled with the Spirit?

67

God Regards the Lowly

68

Look to Jesus for Your Joy

69

God Rejoices to Do You Good

70

God Works Through Good Resolves

71

Arm Yourself with Promises

72

Where Our Comfort Comes From

73

Finally and Totally Justified

74

Radical Effects of the Resurrection

75

When God Becomes 100% for Us

76

You Are Greatly Loved

77

God Opens the Heart

78

The Hour of Unusual Threat

79

Enjoying His Fullness

80

Our Servant, Jesus

81

Amazed at the Resurrection

82

The Kind of Cold That Kills

83

When You Are Immortal

84

The Sweet Designs of God

85

When Obedience Feels Impossible

86

Every Calvary Step Was Love

87

Christ as Means and End

88

The Perfect City

89

Lincoln’s Providence

90

The Best Form of Slavery

91

Saving Faith Isn’t Easily Satisfied

92

Better Than Money, Sex, and Power

93

Are You Glad You Are Not God?

94

Eleventh-Hour Breakthroughs

95

Reviled Here, Rewarded There

96

The Main Purpose of Ministry

97

Five Ways Affliction Helps

98

The Greatest Love

99

The Forgiveness Cycle

100

Included in the Covenant

101

Five Purposes for Suffering

102

Prevailing Grace

103

Caused to Return

104

How to Repent

105

He Knows Your Need

106

The Giver Gets the Glory

107

Delayed Deliverances

108

Served in Serving Others

109

Go Directly to God

110

We Will Rule All Things

111

The Anchor of Joy

112

The Battle to Remind

113

How to Serve a Bad Boss

114

The Remedy for Pride

115

Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come

116

Words for the Wind

117

The Freeness of Grace

118

The Window of the Heart

119

The Command That Creates

120

The Experiential Key

121

Passionate for God and Truth

122

How Believers Will Be Judged

123

Only a Little While

124

Gain What You Cannot Lose

125

Grace Denied and Supplied

126

God’s Will Is That You Draw Near

127

Our Toothless Enemy

128

Hope for Imperfect Christians

129

The Smallest Faith

130

What Jesus Did to Death

131

Grace for the New Year

132

Death Rehearsal

133

Outfitted and Empowered

134

A Horrible Destiny

135

Glory Is the Goal

136

What Is Your Aim?

137

How to Contemplate Calamity

138

Three Christmas Presents

139

Two Purposes for Christmas

140

God’s Indescribable Gift

141

That You May Believe

142

The Birth of the Ancient of Days

143

Christmas Solidarity

144

Christmas Is for Freedom

145

The Christmas Model for Missions

146

The Greatest Salvation Imaginable

147

God’s Most Successful Setback

148

Life and Death at Christmas

149

Making It Real for His People

150

The Final Reality Is Here

151

Replacing the Shadows

152

Why Jesus Came

153

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh

154

Two Kinds of Opposition to Jesus

155

Bethlehem’s Supernatural Star

156

Messiah for the Magi

157

Peace to Those with Whom He Is Pleased

158

No Detour from Calvary

159

For God’s Little People

160

The Long-Awaited Visitation

161

Mary’s Magnificent God

162

Prepare the Way

163

The Triumphant Shame of the Cross

164

The Only Conscience-Cleanser

165

The Root of Ingratitude

166

How to Magnify God

167

Jesus Prays for Us

168

Glorify God by Giving Thanks

169

Hold Fast to Your Hope

170

When God Swears by God

171

The Key to Spiritual Maturity

172

The Gravity of Gratitude

173

Five Reasons Death Is Gain

174

We All Need Help

175

The Piercing Power of the Word

176

Change Is Possible

177

When I Am Anxious

178

Fighting Words

179

The Marvel of Creation

180

Do Not Harden Your Heart

181

How Satan Serves God

182

We Are His House

183

Wipe Your Fears Away

184

Marveling at the End of History

185

We Honor What We Enjoy

186

Is God’s Love Conditional?

187

Love One Another Gladly

188

Do You Neglect Your Salvation?

189

The Real Problem with Anxiety

190

The Meaning of Suffering

191

Rejoicing in Pain

192

Christ’s Sufferings in Us

193

The Seminary of Suffering

194

The Danger of Drifting

195

Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage

196

Radical Recompense

197

Possible with God

198

Medicine for the Missionary

199

The Great Missionary Hope

200

Christ Is Like Sunlight

201

God’s Final, Decisive Word

202

Hedonism for Husbands and Wives

203

The Mystery of Marriage

204

Prayer’s First Priority

205

Love’s Greatest Happiness

206

Jesus’s Joy in Marriage

207

The Purpose of Prosperity

208

Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy

209

Plan for Prayer

210

God Heals by Humbling

211

The Master Servant

212

Beware of Serving God

213

We Can Do Nothing

214

Best Passage Ever

215

God’s Wise Mercy

216

Our Good Is God’s Delight

217

We Wait, He Works

218

The Happy God

219

Justice Will Be Done

220

Joy Unbound

221

Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love

222

God Isn’t Gloomy

223

The All-Satisfying Object

224

The Most Liberating Discovery

225

Make War with Unbelief

226

Our Good Is His Glory

227

The Power of a Superior Promise

228

Live Confident in God’s Sovereign Power

229

Life Hangs on the Word of God

230

Jesus’s Pursuit of Joy

231

Hope for the Worst of Sinners

232

Let Goods and Kindred Go

233

Ammunition Against Anxiety

234

Not Nearly Hedonistic Enough

235

Our Unspeakable Privilege

236

The Only True Freedom

237

Worship in a Lightning Storm

238

The Soul’s Final Feast

239

The Only Enduring Happiness

240

God Will Supply All Your Needs

241

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 3

242

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2

243

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 1

244

How to Fight Anxiety

245

Grace Must Be Free

246

How to Repay God

247

God-Given Foes and God-Given Faith

248

Present and Powerful Love

249

The Goal of Christ’s Love

250

What’s New About the New Covenant

251

The “I Will” of God

252

Devastated and Delighted

253

He Does All That He Pleases

254

The Lion and the Lamb

255

Church Growth God’s Way

256

Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus

257

Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake

258

Jesus Will Trample All Our Enemies

259

Shadows and Streams

260

When God’s Love Is Sweetest

261

The Message of Creation

262

God Is Not an Idolater

263

Pleased to Praise

264

An Unshakably Happy God

265

Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For

266

What the Resurrection Means for Us

267

Hope to Obey Hard Commands

268

What It Means to Bless the Lord

269

Why You Give In to Sexual Sin

270

What We Were Made For

271

God Forgives and Is Still Just

272

Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves

273

My Soul Thirsts for God

274

The Different Tenses of Grace

275

Have Mercy on Me, O God

276

The End of the Gospel

277

Ruler of All Nature

278

The Point of Creation

279

Jesus Bought Your Endurance

280

10 Things “Yahweh” Means

281

As Secure as God Is Faithful

282

Why You Have a Body

283

Afraid of Death No More

284

Our Weakness Reveals His Worth

285

Suffering That Crushes Faith

286

Suffering That Strengthens Faith

287

God’s Plan for Martyrs

288

Why We Don’t Lose Heart

289

If You Don’t Fight Lust

290

What It Means to Love Money

291

Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense

292

Jesus Keeps His Sheep

293

How to Defy Sinful Desire

294

Preach to Yourself

295

Models for Combating Discouragement

296

Grace for Every Need

297

His Timing Is Perfect

298

God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts

299

The Power to Profess Christ

300

Energy for Today’s To-Dos

301

We Work by Grace

302

Ministry — More Important Than Life

303

What Moves You to Minister?

304

Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear

305

We Experience the Spirit Through Faith

306

Proud Works vs. Humble Faith

307

Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression

308

Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness

309

When Another Christian Hurts You

310

How Christ Conquered Bitterness

311

Give God Your Revenge

312

When Will I Be Satisfied?

313

Good News: God Is Happy

314

How Well Do You Know God?

315

God’s Pleasure to Do You Good

316

Heaven’s Relief in the Coming Wrath

317

The Powerful Root of Practical Love

318

Enduring When Obeying Hurts

319

A Hiding Place for the Helpless

320

The Fear That Draws Us In

321

The Death Trap Called Covetousness

322

I Can Be Content in Every Circumstance

323

Faith Honors Him Whom It Trusts

324

How We Must Fight for Holiness

325

The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin

326

Grace Is Pardon — and Power!

327

The Offense of Fearing Man

328

How to Plead for Unbelievers

329

What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

330

Serve God with Your Thirst

331

The Honeymoon That Never Ends

332

How Much God Wants to Bless You

333

Who Killed Jesus?

334

Help My Unbelief

335

Faith for the Future

336

When Reason Serves Rebellion

337

Prayer Is for Sinners

338

Glorify God in Your Body

339

We Live by Faith

340

All Hostile to God

341

Dependable in the Mundane

342

What Makes God Proud

343

Faith for the Impossible

344

Who Are the Children of Abraham?

345

The Faith That Magnifies Grace

346

The Gain of Serving God

347

Something to Boast About

348

When God Goes Against His Will

349

The Payout for Patience

350

Authentic vs. Phony Faith

351

Strength to Wait with Patience

352

God’s Design in Detours

353

The Bedrock of Your Assurance

354

Is Christ Worth It?

355

Jesus Knows His Sheep

356

God Works for You

357

How to Hate Your Life

358

What Makes Jesus Rejoice

359

The Light Beyond the Light

360

Five Digital Dangers

361

The Freest Love

362

What Is Meekness?

363

Ideas Have Consequences

364

At the Bottom of It All

365

Children of a Singing God