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
The Gain of Serving God
The worship of daily obedience is not at bottom a burdensome giving to God, but a joyful getting from God. That is the true service that God demands.
00:04:18 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Something to Boast About
Faith nullifies boasting and glorifies grace. Wherever faith looks, it sees grace behind every praiseworthy act. So it cannot boast, except in the Lord.
00:02:46 |
Fri 30 May 2025
When God Goes Against His Will
God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.
00:04:10 |
Thu 29 May 2025
The Payout for Patience
The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.
00:03:34 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Authentic vs. Phony Faith
We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.
00:02:54 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Strength to Wait with Patience
Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.
00:02:45 |
Mon 26 May 2025
God’s Design in Detours
What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.
00:03:45 |
Sun 25 May 2025
The Bedrock of Your Assurance
Our election is unconditional in the strictest sense. Neither our faith nor our obedience is the basis of it. It is free and utterly undeserved.
00:04:14 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Is Christ Worth It?
When we sit down to calculate the cost of following Jesus — when we weigh the “worst” and the “best” — he is worth it. Abundantly worth it.
00:03:35 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Jesus Knows His Sheep
Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately.
00:02:50 |
Thu 22 May 2025
God Works for You
God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him.
00:04:11 |
Wed 21 May 2025
How to Hate Your Life
When you love Christ, you don’t take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God’s grace.
00:03:33 |
Tue 20 May 2025
What Makes Jesus Rejoice
What makes the whole Trinity rejoice together? The free, electing love of God to hide the true spiritual identity of Christ from the intellectual elite and to reveal it to babes.
00:03:50 |
Mon 19 May 2025
The Light Beyond the Light
Don’t replace Christ this summer with trifles. Seek the things that are above. Flight from Christ into Christless leisure makes the soul parched.
00:04:28 |
Sun 18 May 2025
Five Digital Dangers
Consider these five digital dangers and some accompanying resolutions to avoid and redeem them.
00:04:59 |
Sat 17 May 2025
The Freest Love
God’s electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom.
00:04:22 |
Fri 16 May 2025
What Is Meekness?
Trust God. Commit your way to him. Roll onto him your anxieties, frustrations, and plans — indeed, your very life.
00:03:21 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Ideas Have Consequences
Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures.
00:04:02 |
Wed 14 May 2025
At the Bottom of It All
How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!”
00:03:33 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Why We Should Love Our Enemies
When God becomes our treasure, we treat our adversaries out of our own fullness with the all-satisfying glory of God.
00:03:39 |
Mon 12 May 2025
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