1. There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
  2. In schools and on barstools and in delis and where two or three gather, your Savior turns you loose to encounter those who are delightful and loveable.
  3. Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance breaks through sorrow and worry; such trust pours joy into the way we think and the way we experience life.
  4. Ruth is given six measures of joy and rest. Boaz does everything he can to protect her integrity and her reputation. God's blessings will fall on them both, and all people will be blessed through Him.
  5. Only through Christ and his work are our sins forgiven, and our consciences set free and made glad.
  6. Christ has forgiven you, and all of your worship, all of your prayers, all of your offerings are accepted because they are built on the foundation of Christ’s forgiveness.
  7. All creation joins together to repeat the sounding joy.
  8. Seasons of prolonged suffering have a way of beating your spirit down into the dust. Relational suffering. Physical suffering. Emotional suffering. Financial suffering.
  9. How many of you Christians out there are barely holding it together? I know the inclination should be towards joy and hope, but for some of us, it's not.
  10. He comes to fill our old, stony heart with the new wine of his forgiveness.
  11. Can there be joy in obedience? That depends on if obedience if a free choice or the result of threats.
  12. My Grandmother recently lost a long battle with cancer. Her name was Joy, and a name has never been more fitting.
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