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Solid Joys Daily Devotional — 366 episodes

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Energy for Today’s To-Dos

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We Work by Grace

3

Ministry — More Important Than Life

4

What Moves You to Minister?

5

Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear

6

We Experience the Spirit Through Faith

7

Proud Works vs. Humble Faith

8

Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression

9

Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness

10

When Another Christian Hurts You

11

How Christ Conquered Bitterness

12

Give God Your Revenge

13

When Will I Be Satisfied?

14

Good News: God Is Happy

15

How Well Do You Know God?

16

God’s Pleasure to Do You Good

17

Heaven’s Relief in the Coming Wrath

18

The Powerful Root of Practical Love

19

Enduring When Obeying Hurts

20

A Hiding Place for the Helpless

21

The Fear That Draws Us In

22

The Death Trap Called Covetousness

23

I Can Be Content in Every Circumstance

24

Faith Honors Him Whom It Trusts

25

Help Spread Great Joy in a Big God to the Next Generation

26

How We Must Fight for Holiness

27

The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin

28

Grace Is Pardon — and Power!

29

The Offense of Fearing Man

30

How to Plead for Unbelievers

31

What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

32

Serve God with Your Thirst

33

The Honeymoon That Never Ends

34

How Much God Wants to Bless You

35

Who Killed Jesus?

36

Help My Unbelief

37

Faith for the Future

38

When Reason Serves Rebellion

39

Prayer Is for Sinners

40

Glorify God in Your Body

41

We Live by Faith

42

All Hostile to God

43

Dependable in the Mundane

44

What Makes God Proud

45

Faith for the Impossible

46

Who Are the Children of Abraham?

47

The Faith That Magnifies Grace

48

The Gain of Serving God

49

Something to Boast About

50

When God Goes Against His Will

51

The Payout for Patience

52

Authentic vs. Phony Faith

53

Strength to Wait with Patience

54

God’s Design in Detours

55

The Bedrock of Your Assurance

56

Is Christ Worth It?

57

Jesus Knows His Sheep

58

God Works for You

59

How to Hate Your Life

60

What Makes Jesus Rejoice

61

The Light Beyond the Light

62

Five Digital Dangers

63

The Freest Love

64

What Is Meekness?

65

Ideas Have Consequences

66

At the Bottom of It All

67

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

68

Go on to the Meal

69

A People for His Name

70

What It Means to Love God

71

Pleased with His Precepts

72

Don’t Serve God

73

Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy

74

Seven Sources of Joy

75

A Dangerous Motive

76

How to Ask Forgiveness

77

God Demonstrates His Love

78

Dirty Rags No More

79

Fifteen Tactics for Joy

80

The Day Is at Hand

81

The Great Exchange

82

You Were Made for God

83

Paul’s Salvation Was for You

84

The Liberating Power of Forgiveness

85

Seek Your City’s Good

86

Five Reasons to Be Fearless

87

The Key to Radical Love

88

Afraid to Stray

89

A Future for Failures

90

God, Touch Our Hearts

91

Embracing Jesus

92

Mercy for Today

93

Don’t Be Like the Mule

94

Pray for His Fame

95

Talk to Your Tears

96

You Cannot Lose in the End

97

The Great King’s Wine

98

What Is Well-Placed Shame?

99

Talk to God, Not Just About Him

100

Make Satan Know His Defeat

101

What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy

102

Two Ways to Remember Jesus

103

The Books at the Judgment

104

God Strengthens Us Through Others

105

How to Respond When You Falter

106

Better Than Everest

107

Two of Our Deepest Needs

108

What Binds the Hands of Love?

109

If He Calls, He Keeps

110

As Sure as God’s Love for His Son

111

When Everyone Deserts You

112

10 Results of the Resurrection

113

How to Delight in God’s Word

114

Forever Satisfied

115

Ministry and the Fear of Man

116

Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness

117

Satan’s Candy Store

118

God’s Best Promise

119

Jesus Died for This Moment

120

A Six-Point Summary of the Gospel

121

Why We Must Hold Fast Our Hope

122

Prayer’s Exclamation Point

123

Jesus Will Finish the Mission

124

Subversive for the Savior

125

The Triumph Is Sure

126

Jesus Is God’s Amen

127

When the Potter Is for Us

128

Two Infinitely Strong and Tender Truths

129

Let Us Adore the Lamb

130

God Cares for You

131

Open the Windows of Your Heart

132

How Can I Be Filled with the Spirit?

133

God Regards the Lowly

134

Look to Jesus for Your Joy

135

God Rejoices to Do You Good

136

God Works Through Good Resolves

137

Arm Yourself with Promises

138

Where Our Comfort Comes From

139

Finally and Totally Justified

140

Radical Effects of the Resurrection

141

When God Becomes 100% for Us

142

You Are Greatly Loved

143

God Opens the Heart

144

The Hour of Unusual Threat

145

Enjoying His Fullness

146

Our Servant, Jesus

147

Amazed at the Resurrection

148

The Kind of Cold That Kills

149

When You Are Immortal

150

The Sweet Designs of God

151

When Obedience Feels Impossible

152

Every Calvary Step Was Love

153

Christ as Means and End

154

The Perfect City

155

Lincoln’s Providence

156

The Best Form of Slavery

157

Saving Faith Isn’t Easily Satisfied

158

Better Than Money, Sex, and Power

159

Are You Glad You Are Not God?

160

Eleventh-Hour Breakthroughs

161

Reviled Here, Rewarded There

162

The Main Purpose of Ministry

163

Five Ways Affliction Helps

164

The Greatest Love

165

The Forgiveness Cycle

166

Included in the Covenant

167

Five Purposes for Suffering

168

Prevailing Grace

169

Caused to Return

170

How to Repent

171

He Knows Your Need

172

The Giver Gets the Glory

173

Delayed Deliverances

174

Served in Serving Others

175

Go Directly to God

176

We Will Rule All Things

177

The Anchor of Joy

178

The Battle to Remind

179

How to Serve a Bad Boss

180

The Remedy for Pride

181

Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come

182

Words for the Wind

183

The Freeness of Grace

184

The Window of the Heart

185

The Command That Creates

186

The Experiential Key

187

Passionate for God and Truth

188

How Believers Will Be Judged

189

Only a Little While

190

Gain What You Cannot Lose

191

Grace Denied and Supplied

192

God’s Will Is That You Draw Near

193

Our Toothless Enemy

194

Hope for Imperfect Christians

195

The Smallest Faith

196

What Jesus Did to Death

197

Grace for the New Year

198

Death Rehearsal

199

Outfitted and Empowered

200

A Horrible Destiny

201

Glory Is the Goal

202

What Is Your Aim?

203

How to Contemplate Calamity

204

Three Christmas Presents

205

Two Purposes for Christmas

206

God’s Indescribable Gift

207

That You May Believe

208

The Birth of the Ancient of Days

209

Christmas Solidarity

210

Christmas Is for Freedom

211

The Christmas Model for Missions

212

The Greatest Salvation Imaginable

213

God’s Most Successful Setback

214

Life and Death at Christmas

215

Making It Real for His People

216

The Final Reality Is Here

217

Replacing the Shadows

218

Why Jesus Came

219

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh

220

Two Kinds of Opposition to Jesus

221

Bethlehem’s Supernatural Star

222

Messiah for the Magi

223

Peace to Those with Whom He Is Pleased

224

No Detour from Calvary

225

For God’s Little People

226

The Long-Awaited Visitation

227

Mary’s Magnificent God

228

Prepare the Way

229

The Triumphant Shame of the Cross

230

The Only Conscience-Cleanser

231

The Root of Ingratitude

232

How to Magnify God

233

Jesus Prays for Us

234

Glorify God by Giving Thanks

235

Hold Fast to Your Hope

236

When God Swears by God

237

The Key to Spiritual Maturity

238

The Gravity of Gratitude

239

Five Reasons Death Is Gain

240

We All Need Help

241

The Piercing Power of the Word

242

Change Is Possible

243

When I Am Anxious

244

Fighting Words

245

The Marvel of Creation

246

Do Not Harden Your Heart

247

How Satan Serves God

248

We Are His House

249

Wipe Your Fears Away

250

Marveling at the End of History

251

We Honor What We Enjoy

252

Is God’s Love Conditional?

253

Love One Another Gladly

254

Do You Neglect Your Salvation?

255

The Real Problem with Anxiety

256

The Meaning of Suffering

257

Rejoicing in Pain

258

Christ’s Sufferings in Us

259

The Seminary of Suffering

260

The Danger of Drifting

261

Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage

262

Radical Recompense

263

Possible with God

264

Medicine for the Missionary

265

The Great Missionary Hope

266

Christ Is Like Sunlight

267

God’s Final, Decisive Word

268

Hedonism for Husbands and Wives

269

The Mystery of Marriage

270

Prayer’s First Priority

271

Love’s Greatest Happiness

272

Jesus’s Joy in Marriage

273

The Purpose of Prosperity

274

Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy

275

Plan for Prayer

276

God Heals by Humbling

277

The Master Servant

278

Beware of Serving God

279

We Can Do Nothing

280

Best Passage Ever

281

God’s Wise Mercy

282

Our Good Is God’s Delight

283

We Wait, He Works

284

The Happy God

285

Justice Will Be Done

286

Joy Unbound

287

Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love

288

God Isn’t Gloomy

289

The All-Satisfying Object

290

The Most Liberating Discovery

291

Make War with Unbelief

292

Our Good Is His Glory

293

The Power of a Superior Promise

294

Live Confident in God’s Sovereign Power

295

Life Hangs on the Word of God

296

Jesus’s Pursuit of Joy

297

Hope for the Worst of Sinners

298

Let Goods and Kindred Go

299

Ammunition Against Anxiety

300

Not Nearly Hedonistic Enough

301

Our Unspeakable Privilege

302

The Only True Freedom

303

Worship in a Lightning Storm

304

The Soul’s Final Feast

305

The Only Enduring Happiness

306

God Will Supply All Your Needs

307

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 3

308

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2

309

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 1

310

How to Fight Anxiety

311

Grace Must Be Free

312

How to Repay God

313

God-Given Foes and God-Given Faith

314

Present and Powerful Love

315

The Goal of Christ’s Love

316

What’s New About the New Covenant

317

The “I Will” of God

318

Devastated and Delighted

319

He Does All That He Pleases

320

The Lion and the Lamb

321

Church Growth God’s Way

322

Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus

323

Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake

324

Jesus Will Trample All Our Enemies

325

Shadows and Streams

326

When God’s Love Is Sweetest

327

The Message of Creation

328

God Is Not an Idolater

329

Pleased to Praise

330

The Unshakably Happy God

331

Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For

332

What the Resurrection Means for Us

333

Hope to Obey Hard Commands

334

What It Means to Bless the Lord

335

Why You Give In to Sexual Sin

336

What We Were Made For

337

God Forgives and Is Still Just

338

Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves

339

My Soul Thirsts for God

340

The Different Tenses of Grace

341

Have Mercy on Me, O God

342

The End of the Gospel

343

Ruler of All Nature

344

The Point of Creation

345

Jesus Bought Your Endurance

346

10 Things “Yahweh” Means

347

As Secure as God Is Faithful

348

Why You Have a Body

349

Afraid of Death No More

350

Our Weakness Reveals His Worth

351

Suffering That Crushes Faith

352

Suffering That Strengthens Faith

353

God’s Plan for Martyrs

354

Why We Don’t Lose Heart

355

If You Don’t Fight Lust

356

What It Means to Love Money

357

Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense

358

Jesus Keeps His Sheep

359

How to Defy Sinful Desire

360

Preach to Yourself

361

Models for Combating Discouragement

362

Grace for Every Need

363

His Timing Is Perfect

364

God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts

365

The Power to Profess Christ

366

Children of a Singing God