Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 439
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
God’s Indescribable Gift
Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he purchased. Don’t put the gift on the shelf unopened.
00:03:50 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
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.
00:04:08 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:56 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:20 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
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.
00:04:46 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:16 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
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.
00:04:01 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
God’s Most Successful Setback
God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.
00:03:40 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:54 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:22 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
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.
00:02:57 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
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.
00:02:19 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
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.
00:05:33 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:46 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:14 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
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.
00:05:23 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
Messiah for the Magi
Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.
00:02:25 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:59 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
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.
00:03:21 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
For God’s Little People
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
00:04:01 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
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