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Solid Joys Daily Devotional
A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
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Solid Joys Daily DevotionalGod’s Pleasure to Do You Good
Even if we know that God is good to us, we may believe that his goodness is constrained. But Jesus is at pains to help us not feel that way.
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Heaven’s Relief in the Coming Wrath
The unwillingness of others to repent will not hold the saints hostage. Hell cannot blackmail heaven into misery.
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The Powerful Root of Practical Love
Faith in God’s promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
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Enduring When Obeying Hurts
What can sustain the will to die for others, when you are innocent? Jesus banked on love and future joy.
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A Hiding Place for the Helpless
The experience of future grace often depends on whether we will take refuge in God, or whether we will run for cover to other shelters.
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The Fear That Draws Us In
There is a fear that is slavish and drives us away from God, and there is a fear that is sweet and draws us to God.
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The Death Trap Called Covetousness
What’s at stake in fleeing covetousness and fighting for contentment in future grace is eternal life.
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I Can Be Content in Every Circumstance
Whenever we sense the slightest rise of covetousness in our hearts, we must turn on it and fight it with all our might using the weapons of faith.
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Faith Honors Him Whom It Trusts
God is glorified when the power to be holy comes from humble faith in future grace.
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How We Must Fight for Holiness
The fight for good works is a fight to believe in future grace. Therefore, learning to fight for holiness by faith in future grace is supremely important.
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The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Faith embraces God — not just his promised gifts — as our treasure.
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Grace Is Pardon — and Power!
Grace is not simply the pardon of our sins; it is the power to press on in obedience. We trust in God’s ever-arriving gracious power to enable us to do what we…
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The Offense of Fearing Man
When we hear God’s promises and trust him with courage, fearing the reproach brought upon God by our unbelief, then he is greatly honored.
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How to Plead for Unbelievers
Prayer ascribes to God the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is to choose and to save sinners.
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What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?
The prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at his word.
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Serve God with Your Thirst
The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring.
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The Honeymoon That Never Ends
With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.
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How Much God Wants to Bless You
God’s anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. He is infinitely energetic with unbounded and unending enthusiasm to do…
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Who Killed Jesus?
God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God.
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Help My Unbelief
Not only are spiritual gifts a work of God’s free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts.
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Faith for the Future
In order to live the radical lives Christ calls us to live, we must embrace him as the only one who can truly satisfy our souls.
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When Reason Serves Rebellion
Our hearts exploit our minds to justify what our hearts want. Our deepest desires incline our minds to perceive and think in a way that will make our desires…
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Prayer Is for Sinners
If we recognize our sin, fight it, and cling to the cross of Christ as our hope, then God will hear us and answer our prayers.
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Glorify God in Your Body
Worship is all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God.
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We Live by Faith
The faith that justifies and the faith that sanctifies are not two different kinds of faith.
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All Hostile to God
The best news in all the world is that our alienation from God is ended. We have been reconciled to the Judge of the universe.
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Dependable in the Mundane
Be devoted to glorifying the dependability of God. Lives of faith are the great mirror of his faithful love and provision.
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What Makes God Proud
Open your eyes to the better country, the city of God that he has prepared for us, and let yourself desire it with all your heart. God will not be ashamed to…
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Faith for the Impossible
Faith glorifies God because it is a future-oriented confidence in God’s integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all his promises.
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Who Are the Children of Abraham?
We don’t become heirs of Abraham’s promises by working for God but by being confident that God works for us.
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The Faith That Magnifies Grace
Why does faith not nullify the grace of God? Because faith calls all attention to grace and magnifies it, rather than nullifies it.
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The Gain of Serving God
The worship of daily obedience is not at bottom a burdensome giving to God, but a joyful getting from God. That is the true service that God demands.
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Something to Boast About
Faith nullifies boasting and glorifies grace. Wherever faith looks, it sees grace behind every praiseworthy act. So it cannot boast, except in the Lord.
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When God Goes Against His Will
God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.
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The Payout for Patience
The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.
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Authentic vs. Phony Faith
We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.
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Strength to Wait with Patience
Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.
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God’s Design in Detours
What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.
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The Bedrock of Your Assurance
Our election is unconditional in the strictest sense. Neither our faith nor our obedience is the basis of it. It is free and utterly undeserved.
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Is Christ Worth It?
When we sit down to calculate the cost of following Jesus — when we weigh the “worst” and the “best” — he is worth it. Abundantly worth it.
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Jesus Knows His Sheep
Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately.
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God Works for You
God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him.
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How to Hate Your Life
When you love Christ, you don’t take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God’s grace.
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What Makes Jesus Rejoice
What makes the whole Trinity rejoice together? The free, electing love of God to hide the true spiritual identity of Christ from the intellectual elite and to…
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The Light Beyond the Light
Don’t replace Christ this summer with trifles. Seek the things that are above. Flight from Christ into Christless leisure makes the soul parched.
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Five Digital Dangers
Consider these five digital dangers and some accompanying resolutions to avoid and redeem them.
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The Freest Love
God’s electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom.
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What Is Meekness?
Trust God. Commit your way to him. Roll onto him your anxieties, frustrations, and plans — indeed, your very life.
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Ideas Have Consequences
Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures.
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At the Bottom of It All
How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!”
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Why We Should Love Our Enemies
When God becomes our treasure, we treat our adversaries out of our own fullness with the all-satisfying glory of God.
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Go on to the Meal
You have heard echoes of God’s glory everywhere; tune your heart to the original music. The best place to get your heart tuned is at the cross of Jesus Christ.
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A People for His Name
God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language and nation.
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What It Means to Love God
This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him — not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is.
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Pleased with His Precepts
Faith overcomes our inborn hostility to God and his will, and frees us to keep his commandments.
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Don’t Serve God
God will gladly receive anything from us that shows our dependence and his all-sufficiency. Therefore, we can gladly cast all our anxieties on him.
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Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy
The only joy that reflects the worth of God and overflows in God-glorifying love is rooted in true knowledge of God.
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Seven Sources of Joy
Joy comes from the Holy Spirit, not our own efforts or imagination or family upbringing. Therefore, the call to joy is a call to earnest prayer.
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A Dangerous Motive
Gratitude looks back to past grace received and feels thankful. Faith looks forward to future grace promised and feels hopeful.
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How to Ask Forgiveness
Praying for forgiveness should be based not only on an appeal to God’s mercy, but also on an appeal to his justice in crediting the worth of his Son’s…