Desiring God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Religion EN ↓ 365 episodes

A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.

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Desiring God

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God’s Indescribable Gift 23.12.2025 3:49

Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he purchased. Don’t put the gift on the shelf unopened.

That You May Believe 22.12.2025 4:08

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.

The Birth of the Ancient of Days 21.12.2025 3:55

Jesus’s birth was not a coming into being of a new person, but a coming into the world of an infinitely old person.

Christmas Solidarity 20.12.2025 3:19

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.

Christmas Is for Freedom 19.12.2025 4:45

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.

The Christmas Model for Missions 18.12.2025 3:15

Distrust God’s mercy, and all is lost. But conquer here, and nothing can harm you for a million ages.

The Greatest Salvation Imaginable 17.12.2025 4:00

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.

God’s Most Successful Setback 16.12.2025 3:40

God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.

Life and Death at Christmas 15.12.2025 3:54

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.

Making It Real for His People 14.12.2025 3:22

The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.

The Final Reality Is Here 13.12.2025 2:57

Our High Priest is seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. No Old Testament priest could ever say that.

Replacing the Shadows 12.12.2025 2:19

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.

Why Jesus Came 11.12.2025 5:33

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.

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh 10.12.2025 3:45

Giving gifts to Christ is like fasting — going without something to show that Christ is more valuable than what you are going without.

Two Kinds of Opposition to Jesus 09.12.2025 3:14

Let this Christmas be the time when you ponder what it means — what it costs — to worship and follow Jesus, the Messiah.

Bethlehem’s Supernatural Star 08.12.2025 5:22

God influenced the stars in the sky to get a little handful of foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they would worship his Son.

Messiah for the Magi 07.12.2025 2:24

Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.

Peace to Those with Whom He Is Pleased 06.12.2025 3:58

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.

No Detour from Calvary 05.12.2025 3:20

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.

For God’s Little People 04.12.2025 4:01

Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.

The Long-Awaited Visitation 03.12.2025 2:18

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Mary’s Magnificent God 02.12.2025 3:05

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.

Prepare the Way 01.12.2025 3:16

This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus’s arrival visible for your children.

The Triumphant Shame of the Cross 30.11.2025 3:26

No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God’s glory and believe.

The Only Conscience-Cleanser 29.11.2025 3:02

Our greatest problem is alienation from God. The only solution is the blood of Christ.