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
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
Go on to the Meal
You have heard echoes of God’s glory everywhere; tune your heart to the original music. The best place to get your heart tuned is at the cross of Jesus Christ.
00:03:06 |
Sun 11 May 2025
A People for His Name
God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language and nation.
00:03:32 |
Sat 10 May 2025
What It Means to Love God
This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him — not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is.
00:03:16 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Pleased with His Precepts
Faith overcomes our inborn hostility to God and his will, and frees us to keep his commandments.
00:03:16 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Don’t Serve God
God will gladly receive anything from us that shows our dependence and his all-sufficiency. Therefore, we can gladly cast all our anxieties on him.
00:03:33 |
Wed 07 May 2025
Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy
The only joy that reflects the worth of God and overflows in God-glorifying love is rooted in true knowledge of God.
00:02:44 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Seven Sources of Joy
Joy comes from the Holy Spirit, not our own efforts or imagination or family upbringing. Therefore, the call to joy is a call to earnest prayer.
00:03:06 |
Mon 05 May 2025
A Dangerous Motive
Gratitude looks back to past grace received and feels thankful. Faith looks forward to future grace promised and feels hopeful.
00:03:37 |
Sun 04 May 2025
How to Ask Forgiveness
Praying for forgiveness should be based not only on an appeal to God’s mercy, but also on an appeal to his justice in crediting the worth of his Son’s obedience.
00:03:29 |
Sat 03 May 2025
God Demonstrates His Love
The goal of everything God takes us through is hope. He wants us to feel unwaveringly hopeful through all tribulations. He wants us to know he loves us.
00:03:34 |
Fri 02 May 2025
Dirty Rags No More
God requires good works not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ alone), but as an evidence of it.
00:04:10 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Fifteen Tactics for Joy
In this life of sin and pain, how shall we fight for joy? Here are fifteen ways.
00:03:50 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
The Day Is at Hand
The age of sin and misery and death is almost spent. The day of righteousness and peace and total joy is dawning.
00:02:33 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
The Great Exchange
Our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. That is the great exchange — and it becomes ours not by works but by faith.
00:03:27 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Children of a Singing God
It could not be otherwise but that Christianity be a singing faith. The founder sang. We are a singing people because we are the children of a singing God.
00:02:33 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
You Were Made for God
When we speak of being a God-centered people, remember, this is because we are joining God in his God-centeredness.
00:03:54 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Paul’s Salvation Was for You
The point of Paul’s conversion happening the way it did is to make Christ’s incredible patience vivid for you.
00:03:51 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
The Liberating Power of Forgiveness
When we live by faith, rooted in God’s forgiveness, we are freed from the lingering, paralyzing effects even of shame we deserve to feel.
00:04:00 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Seek Your City’s Good
Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.
00:03:26 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
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