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
- 437
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Hope to Obey Hard Commands
You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.
00:03:19 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
What It Means to Bless the Lord
Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.
00:02:37 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Why You Give In to Sexual Sin
If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.
00:01:58 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
What We Were Made For
All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.
00:02:44 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
God Forgives and Is Still Just
The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.
00:04:19 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves
The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.
00:03:39 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
My Soul Thirsts for God
When we see the face of Christ, we see the face of God. And we see the glory of his face when we hear the story of the gospel of his death and resurrection.
00:03:11 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
The Different Tenses of Grace
Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.
00:03:30 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Have Mercy on Me, O God
We know more of the mystery of our redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did.
00:02:17 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
The End of the Gospel
The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.
00:03:05 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Ruler of All Nature
Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.
00:02:53 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
The Point of Creation
God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.
00:03:24 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Jesus Bought Your Endurance
God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.
00:02:49 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
10 Things “Yahweh” Means
Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.
00:05:03 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
As Secure as God Is Faithful
Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.
00:02:10 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Why You Have a Body
God will honor the work of his Son by raising our bodies from the dead, and we will use our bodies to glorify him forever.
00:02:31 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
Afraid of Death No More
God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.
00:04:16 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Our Weakness Reveals His Worth
Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.
00:03:04 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Suffering That Crushes Faith
Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.
00:02:20 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Suffering That Strengthens Faith
Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.
00:03:13 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
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