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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 DevotionalWhat Jesus Did to Death
If you are a Christian, death is no longer a punishment for sin. Your sin has been put away by the death of Christ. Christ took the punishment.
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Grace for the New Year
Be thankful for the past grace from the last year, and be confident in the future grace for the new year.
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Death Rehearsal
The lifetime of this year passes before our eyes, and we face the inevitable question: Did we live it well?
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Outfitted and Empowered
When God works in our hearts by the blood of Christ, we feel and think and act in ways more pleasing to him.
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A Horrible Destiny
Flee from the wrath of God, tremble with joy that you are saved, and rescue others along the way.
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Glory Is the Goal
Study the glory of God. Treasure it in all things and above all things. Then study your soul. Know why you treasure glories that are not God’s glory.
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What Is Your Aim?
God did not create humans in his image to be aimless, like lifeless leaves blown around in the backyard of life. He created us to be purposeful.
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How to Contemplate Calamity
Christ’s death was judgment on him because he bore our sins (not his own), and it was mercy toward us who trust him.
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Three Christmas Presents
Jesus offers you a clear purpose for living, hope that your failures will be forgiven, and help in your fight against sin.
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Two Purposes for Christmas
Jesus appeared in the world for two reasons: to help us stop sinning, and to satisfy God’s anger when we do sin.
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God’s Indescribable Gift
Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he purchased. Don’t put the gift on the shelf unopened.
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That You May Believe
The whole Bible is written that you might be awakened to the wonder that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came into the world.
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The Birth of the Ancient of Days
Jesus’s birth was not a coming into being of a new person, but a coming into the world of an infinitely old person.
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Christmas Solidarity
If you want to give a gift to God this Christmas, walk off the assembly line of sin and don’t go back. Take up your place, instead, in the picket line of love.
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Christmas Is for Freedom
Forgiven, we are indestructible. Satan’s plan was to condemn God’s followers in God’s own courtroom. But now, in Christ, there is no condemnation.
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The Christmas Model for Missions
Distrust God’s mercy, and all is lost. But conquer here, and nothing can harm you for a million ages.
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The Greatest Salvation Imaginable
God put our sins on his Son and judged them there, so that he could put them out of his mind, and deal with us mercifully and remain just.
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God’s Most Successful Setback
God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.
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Life and Death at Christmas
Jesus came that we might have Life, now and forever. Make your Now the richer and deeper this Christmas by drinking at the fountain of Forever. It is so near.
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Making It Real for His People
The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.
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The Final Reality Is Here
Our High Priest is seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. No Old Testament priest could ever say that.
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Replacing the Shadows
Jesus came to orient all our attention on himself, ministering for us first on Calvary as our final Sacrifice and then in heaven as our final Priest.
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Why Jesus Came
In dying, Christ de-fanged the devil. How? By covering all our sin. This means that Satan has no legitimate grounds to accuse us before God.
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Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
Giving gifts to Christ is like fasting — going without something to show that Christ is more valuable than what you are going without.
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Two Kinds of Opposition to Jesus
Let this Christmas be the time when you ponder what it means — what it costs — to worship and follow Jesus, the Messiah.
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Bethlehem’s Supernatural Star
God influenced the stars in the sky to get a little handful of foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they would worship his Son.
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Messiah for the Magi
Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.
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Peace to Those with Whom He Is Pleased
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.
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No Detour from Calvary
God could have seen to it that Jesus have a room at his birth. But that would have been a detour off the Calvary road.
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For God’s Little People
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
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The Long-Awaited Visitation
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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Mary’s Magnificent God
The only people whose soul can truly magnify the Lord are people like Elizabeth and Mary. So, this Advent, imitate their lowliness and cheerful humility.
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Prepare the Way
This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus’s arrival visible for your children.
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The Triumphant Shame of the Cross
No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God’s glory and believe.
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The Only Conscience-Cleanser
Our greatest problem is alienation from God. The only solution is the blood of Christ.
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The Root of Ingratitude
At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one’s own greatness. But genuine gratitude glorifies God because it admits that we need him.
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How to Magnify God
The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this: feel, think, and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.
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Jesus Prays for Us
Our salvation is as secure as Christ’s priesthood is indestructible. His deity and resurrection from the dead secure his indestructible priesthood for us.
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Glorify God by Giving Thanks
A life that gives glory to God for his grace and a life of deepest gladness are the same life. And what makes them one is thankfulness.
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Hold Fast to Your Hope
When Christ died for us, he did not buy the freedom from having to hold fast, but the enabling power to hold fast.
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When God Swears by God
It is as unlikely that God will break his word of promise to bless us as it is that he will despise himself.
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The Key to Spiritual Maturity
Getting ready to feast on all God’s word is not first an intellectual challenge; it is first a moral challenge.
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The Gravity of Gratitude
A thankful spirit is others-exalting and glad-hearted. Therefore, pray for a great awakening of humble gratitude.
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Five Reasons Death Is Gain
Death is gain because Christians will then be perfect, pain-free, rested, at home, and with Christ.
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We All Need Help
Because we have a Great High Priest, the throne of God is a throne of grace.
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The Piercing Power of the Word
The word of God is our only hope. It is sharp, living, and active. Therefore, be of good cheer in your battle to believe.
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Change Is Possible
Don’t be a fatalist. Be a Christian. Change is possible. God is alive. Christ is risen. The promises are true.
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When I Am Anxious
Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.
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Fighting Words
When you feel discouraged and anxious, cling to God’s promises to be with you and uphold you.
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The Marvel of Creation
When you marvel at the wonders of creation, do not marvel at the processes of chance but at the creativity of God.
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Do Not Harden Your Heart
The Bible’s warnings are written that you might believe and endure, and have life.
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How Satan Serves God
Satan cannot destroy us. In fact, God turns all his attacks finally against him and for us.
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We Are His House
Becoming a Christian and being a Christian happen in the same way: by hoping in Jesus.
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Wipe Your Fears Away
When anxiety blurs our vision of God’s glory, it does not mean that we are faithless. It means our faith is being attacked.
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Marveling at the End of History
One day, we will see God’s glory, and marvel at it in such a way that he will be glorified in us for all the world to see.
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We Honor What We Enjoy
It is possible to pursue God without glorifying God. If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue him for the joy of fellowship with him.
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Is God’s Love Conditional?
There are precious experiences of the love of God that require that we fight pride, seek humility, and cherish the nearness of God.
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Love One Another Gladly
Loving acts are genuine to the degree that they are not done begrudgingly.
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Do You Neglect Your Salvation?
Being a Christian is a very serious business, though not a sour business. We are simply blood-earnest about being happy in our great salvation.
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The Real Problem with Anxiety
What you thought was a mere struggle with an anxious disposition might really be a far deeper struggle with trusting God.