A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
Episodes
365- · 4 minIs 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.
- · 4 minLove One Another Gladly
Loving acts are genuine to the degree that they are not done begrudgingly.
- · 4 minDo 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.
- · 3 minThe 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.
- · 3 minThe Meaning of Suffering
It is truer in suffering than anywhere else that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
- · 4 minRejoicing in Pain
Whether we focus on the riches of the reward or the refining effects of suffering, God’s purpose is that our joy in suffering be sustained.
- · 3 minChrist’s Sufferings in Us
We exhibit the sufferings of Christ when we ourselves suffer for those we are trying to win.
- · 3 minThe Seminary of Suffering
God designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.
- · 3 minThe Danger of Drifting
Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.
- · 5 minSin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage
Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.
- · 3 minRadical Recompense
Jesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.
- · 3 minPossible with God
God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!
- · 3 minMedicine for the Missionary
“All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.
- · 4 minThe Great Missionary Hope
God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.
- · 3 minChrist Is Like Sunlight
We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.
- · 3 minGod’s Final, Decisive Word
The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.
- · 4 minHedonism for Husbands and Wives
When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.
- · 4 minThe Mystery of Marriage
Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.
- · 3 minPrayer’s First Priority
The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.
- · 3 minLove’s Greatest Happiness
The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.