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Solid Joys Daily Devotional — 366 episodes

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He Does All That He Pleases

2

The Lion and the Lamb

3

Church Growth God’s Way

4

Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus

5

Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake

6

Jesus Will Trample All Our Enemies

7

Shadows and Streams

8

When God’s Love Is Sweetest

9

The Message of Creation

10

God Is Not an Idolater

11

Pleased to Praise

12

The Unshakably Happy God

13

Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For

14

What the Resurrection Means for Us

15

Hope to Obey Hard Commands

16

What It Means to Bless the Lord

17

Why You Give In to Sexual Sin

18

What We Were Made For

19

God Forgives and Is Still Just

20

Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves

21

My Soul Thirsts for God

22

The Different Tenses of Grace

23

Have Mercy on Me, O God

24

The End of the Gospel

25

Ruler of All Nature

26

The Point of Creation

27

Jesus Bought Your Endurance

28

10 Things “Yahweh” Means

29

As Secure as God Is Faithful

30

Why You Have a Body

31

Afraid of Death No More

32

Our Weakness Reveals His Worth

33

Suffering That Crushes Faith

34

Suffering That Strengthens Faith

35

God’s Plan for Martyrs

36

Why We Don’t Lose Heart

37

If You Don’t Fight Lust

38

What It Means to Love Money

39

Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense

40

Jesus Keeps His Sheep

41

How to Defy Sinful Desire

42

Preach to Yourself

43

Models for Combating Discouragement

44

Grace for Every Need

45

His Timing Is Perfect

46

God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts

47

The Power to Profess Christ

48

Energy for Today’s To-Dos

49

We Work by Grace

50

Ministry — More Important Than Life

51

What Moves You to Minister?

52

Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear

53

We Experience the Spirit Through Faith

54

Proud Works vs. Humble Faith

55

Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression

56

Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness

57

When Another Christian Hurts You

58

How Christ Conquered Bitterness

59

Give God Your Revenge

60

When Will I Be Satisfied?

61

Good News: God Is Happy

62

How Well Do You Know God?

63

God’s Pleasure to Do You Good

64

Heaven’s Relief in the Coming Wrath

65

The Powerful Root of Practical Love

66

Enduring When Obeying Hurts

67

A Hiding Place for the Helpless

68

The Fear That Draws Us In

69

The Death Trap Called Covetousness

70

I Can Be Content in Every Circumstance

71

Faith Honors Him Whom It Trusts

72

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

73

How We Must Fight for Holiness

74

The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin

75

Grace Is Pardon — and Power!

76

The Offense of Fearing Man

77

How to Plead for Unbelievers

78

What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

79

Serve God with Your Thirst

80

The Honeymoon That Never Ends

81

How Much God Wants to Bless You

82

Who Killed Jesus?

83

Help My Unbelief

84

Faith for the Future

85

When Reason Serves Rebellion

86

Prayer Is for Sinners

87

Glorify God in Your Body

88

We Live by Faith

89

All Hostile to God

90

Dependable in the Mundane

91

What Makes God Proud

92

Faith for the Impossible

93

Who Are the Children of Abraham?

94

The Faith That Magnifies Grace

95

The Gain of Serving God

96

Something to Boast About

97

When God Goes Against His Will

98

The Payout for Patience

99

Authentic vs. Phony Faith

100

Strength to Wait with Patience

101

God’s Design in Detours

102

The Bedrock of Your Assurance

103

Is Christ Worth It?

104

Jesus Knows His Sheep

105

God Works for You

106

How to Hate Your Life

107

What Makes Jesus Rejoice

108

The Light Beyond the Light

109

Five Digital Dangers

110

The Freest Love

111

What Is Meekness?

112

Ideas Have Consequences

113

At the Bottom of It All

114

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

115

Go on to the Meal

116

A People for His Name

117

What It Means to Love God

118

Pleased with His Precepts

119

Don’t Serve God

120

Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy

121

Seven Sources of Joy

122

A Dangerous Motive

123

How to Ask Forgiveness

124

God Demonstrates His Love

125

Dirty Rags No More

126

Fifteen Tactics for Joy

127

The Day Is at Hand

128

The Great Exchange

129

You Were Made for God

130

Paul’s Salvation Was for You

131

The Liberating Power of Forgiveness

132

Seek Your City’s Good

133

Five Reasons to Be Fearless

134

The Key to Radical Love

135

Afraid to Stray

136

A Future for Failures

137

God, Touch Our Hearts

138

Embracing Jesus

139

Mercy for Today

140

Don’t Be Like the Mule

141

Pray for His Fame

142

Talk to Your Tears

143

You Cannot Lose in the End

144

The Great King’s Wine

145

What Is Well-Placed Shame?

146

Talk to God, Not Just About Him

147

Make Satan Know His Defeat

148

What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy

149

Two Ways to Remember Jesus

150

The Books at the Judgment

151

God Strengthens Us Through Others

152

How to Respond When You Falter

153

Better Than Everest

154

Two of Our Deepest Needs

155

What Binds the Hands of Love?

156

If He Calls, He Keeps

157

As Sure as God’s Love for His Son

158

When Everyone Deserts You

159

10 Results of the Resurrection

160

How to Delight in God’s Word

161

Forever Satisfied

162

Ministry and the Fear of Man

163

Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness

164

Satan’s Candy Store

165

God’s Best Promise

166

Jesus Died for This Moment

167

A Six-Point Summary of the Gospel

168

Why We Must Hold Fast Our Hope

169

Prayer’s Exclamation Point

170

Jesus Will Finish the Mission

171

Subversive for the Savior

172

Triumph Is Sure

173

Jesus Is God’s Amen

174

When the Potter Is for Us

175

Two Infinitely Strong and Tender Truths

176

Let Us Adore the Lamb

177

God Cares for You

178

Open the Windows of Your Heart

179

How Can I Be Filled with the Spirit?

180

God Regards the Lowly

181

Look to Jesus for Your Joy

182

God Rejoices to Do You Good

183

Good Works Through Good Resolves

184

Arm Yourself with Promises

185

Where Our Comfort Comes From

186

Finally and Totally Justified

187

Radical Effects of the Resurrection

188

When God Becomes 100% for Us

189

You Are Greatly Loved

190

God Opens the Heart

191

The Hour of Unusual Threat

192

Enjoying His Fullness

193

Our Servant, Jesus

194

Amazed at the Resurrection

195

The Kind of Cold That Kills

196

When You Are Immortal

197

The Sweet Designs of God

198

When Obedience Feels Impossible

199

Every Calvary Step Was Love

200

Christ as Means and End

201

The Perfect City

202

Lincoln’s Providence

203

The Best Form of Slavery

204

Saving Faith Isn’t Easily Satisfied

205

Better Than Money, Sex, and Power

206

Are You Glad You Are Not God?

207

Eleventh-Hour Breakthroughs

208

Reviled Here, Rewarded There

209

The Main Purpose of Ministry

210

Five Ways Affliction Helps

211

The Greatest Love

212

The Forgiveness Cycle

213

Included in the Covenant

214

Five Purposes for Suffering

215

Prevailing Grace

216

Caused to Return

217

How to Repent

218

He Knows Your Need

219

The Giver Gets the Glory

220

Delayed Deliverances

221

Served in Serving Others

222

Go Directly to God

223

We Will Rule All Things

224

The Anchor of Joy

225

The Battle to Remind

226

How to Serve a Bad Boss

227

The Remedy for Pride

228

Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come

229

Words for the Wind

230

The Freeness of Grace

231

The Window of the Heart

232

The Command That Creates

233

The Experiential Key

234

Passionate for God and Truth

235

How Believers Will Be Judged

236

Only a Little While

237

Gain What You Cannot Lose

238

Grace Denied and Supplied

239

God’s Will Is That You Draw Near

240

Our Toothless Enemy

241

Hope for Imperfect Christians

242

The Smallest Faith

243

What Jesus Did to Death

244

Grace for the New Year

245

Death Rehearsal

246

Outfitted and Empowered

247

A Horrible Destiny

248

Glory Is the Goal

249

What Is Your Aim?

250

How to Contemplate Calamity

251

Three Christmas Presents

252

Two Purposes for Christmas

253

God’s Indescribable Gift

254

That You May Believe

255

The Birth of the Ancient of Days

256

Christmas Solidarity

257

Christmas Is for Freedom

258

The Christmas Model for Missions

259

The Greatest Salvation Imaginable

260

God’s Most Successful Setback

261

Life and Death at Christmas

262

Making It Real for His People

263

The Final Reality Is Here

264

Replacing the Shadows

265

Why Jesus Came

266

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh

267

Two Kinds of Opposition to Jesus

268

Bethlehem’s Supernatural Star

269

Messiah for the Magi

270

Peace to Those with Whom He Is Pleased

271

No Detour from Calvary

272

For God’s Little People

273

The Long-Awaited Visitation

274

Mary’s Magnificent God

275

Prepare the Way

276

The Triumphant Shame of the Cross

277

The Only Conscience-Cleanser

278

The Root of Ingratitude

279

How to Magnify God

280

Jesus Prays for Us

281

Glorify God by Giving Thanks

282

Hold Fast to Your Hope

283

When God Swears by God

284

The Key to Spiritual Maturity

285

The Gravity of Gratitude

286

Five Reasons Death Is Gain

287

We All Need Help

288

The Piercing Power of the Word

289

Change Is Possible

290

When I Am Anxious

291

Fighting Words

292

The Marvel of Creation

293

Do Not Harden Your Heart

294

How Satan Serves God

295

We Are His House

296

Wipe Your Fears Away

297

Marveling at the End of History

298

We Honor What We Enjoy

299

Is God’s Love Conditional?

300

Love One Another Gladly

301

Do You Neglect Your Salvation?

302

The Real Problem with Anxiety

303

The Meaning of Suffering

304

Rejoicing in Pain

305

Christ’s Sufferings in Us

306

The Seminary of Suffering

307

The Danger of Drifting

308

Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage

309

Radical Recompense

310

Possible with God

311

Medicine for the Missionary

312

The Great Missionary Hope

313

Christ Is Like Sunlight

314

God’s Final, Decisive Word

315

Hedonism for Husbands and Wives

316

The Mystery of Marriage

317

Prayer’s First Priority

318

Love’s Greatest Happiness

319

Jesus’s Joy in Marriage

320

The Purpose of Prosperity

321

Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy

322

Plan for Prayer

323

God Heals by Humbling

324

The Master Servant

325

Beware of Serving God

326

We Can Do Nothing

327

Best Passage Ever

328

God’s Wise Mercy

329

Our Good Is God’s Delight

330

We Wait, He Works

331

The Happy God

332

Justice Will Be Done

333

Joy Unbound

334

Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love

335

God Isn’t Gloomy

336

The All-Satisfying Object

337

The Most Liberating Discovery

338

Make War with Unbelief

339

Our Good Is His Glory

340

The Power of a Superior Promise

341

Live Confident in God’s Sovereign Power

342

Life Hangs on the Word of God

343

Jesus’s Pursuit of Joy

344

Hope for the Worst of Sinners

345

Let Goods and Kindred Go

346

Ammunition Against Anxiety

347

Not Nearly Hedonistic Enough

348

Our Unspeakable Privilege

349

The Only True Freedom

350

Worship in a Lightning Storm

351

The Soul’s Final Feast

352

The Only Enduring Happiness

353

God Will Supply All Your Needs

354

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 3

355

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2

356

7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 1

357

How to Fight Anxiety

358

Grace Must Be Free

359

How to Repay God

360

God-Given Foes and God-Given Faith

361

Present and Powerful Love

362

The Goal of Christ’s Love

363

What’s New About the New Covenant

364

The “I Will” of God

365

Devastated and Delighted

366

Children of a Singing God