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
- 438
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Grace Is Pardon — and Power!
Grace is not simply the pardon of our sins; it is the power to press on in obedience. We trust in God’s ever-arriving gracious power to enable us to do what we should.
00:03:17 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
The Offense of Fearing Man
When we hear God’s promises and trust him with courage, fearing the reproach brought upon God by our unbelief, then he is greatly honored.
00:03:02 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
How to Plead for Unbelievers
Prayer ascribes to God the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is to choose and to save sinners.
00:02:20 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?
The prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at his word.
00:02:53 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Serve God with Your Thirst
The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring.
00:03:26 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
The Honeymoon That Never Ends
With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.
00:02:13 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
How Much God Wants to Bless You
God’s anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. He is infinitely energetic with unbounded and unending enthusiasm to do us good.
00:03:33 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Who Killed Jesus?
God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God.
00:03:49 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Help My Unbelief
Not only are spiritual gifts a work of God’s free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts.
00:03:01 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Faith for the Future
In order to live the radical lives Christ calls us to live, we must embrace him as the only one who can truly satisfy our souls.
00:03:06 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
When Reason Serves Rebellion
Our hearts exploit our minds to justify what our hearts want. Our deepest desires incline our minds to perceive and think in a way that will make our desires look right.
00:03:04 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Prayer Is for Sinners
If we recognize our sin, fight it, and cling to the cross of Christ as our hope, then God will hear us and answer our prayers.
00:03:54 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Glorify God in Your Body
Worship is all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God.
00:03:14 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
We Live by Faith
The faith that justifies and the faith that sanctifies are not two different kinds of faith.
00:03:02 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
All Hostile to God
The best news in all the world is that our alienation from God is ended. We have been reconciled to the Judge of the universe.
00:02:32 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Dependable in the Mundane
Be devoted to glorifying the dependability of God. Lives of faith are the great mirror of his faithful love and provision.
00:03:03 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
What Makes God Proud
Open your eyes to the better country, the city of God that he has prepared for us, and let yourself desire it with all your heart. God will not be ashamed to be called your God.
00:03:09 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Faith for the Impossible
Faith glorifies God because it is a future-oriented confidence in God’s integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all his promises.
00:02:49 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Who Are the Children of Abraham?
We don’t become heirs of Abraham’s promises by working for God but by being confident that God works for us.
00:04:11 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
The Faith That Magnifies Grace
Why does faith not nullify the grace of God? Because faith calls all attention to grace and magnifies it, rather than nullifies it.
00:03:31 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
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