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Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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.

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Episodes

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.
2022-12-11
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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.
2022-12-10
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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.
2022-12-09
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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.
2022-12-08
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Messiah for the Magi

Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah ? a King, and Promise-Fulfiller ? for all the nations, not just Israel.
2022-12-07
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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.
2022-12-06
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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.
2022-12-05
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For God?s Little People

Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
2022-12-04
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The Long-Awaited Visitation

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
2022-12-03
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Mary?s Magnificent God

The only people whose soul can truly magnify the Lord are people like Elizabeth and Mary. So, this Advent, imitate their lowliness and cheerful humility.
2022-12-02
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Prepare the Way

This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus?s arrival visible for your children.
2022-12-01
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The Triumphant Shame of the Cross

No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God?s glory and believe.
2022-11-30
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The Only Conscience-Cleanser

Our greatest problem is alienation from God. The only solution is the blood of Christ.
2022-11-29
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The Root of Ingratitude

At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one?s own greatness. But genuine gratitude glorifies God because it admits that we need him.
2022-11-28
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How to Magnify God

The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this: feel, think, and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.
2022-11-27
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Jesus Prays for Us

Our salvation is as secure as Christ?s priesthood is indestructible. His deity and resurrection from the dead secure his indestructible priesthood for us.
2022-11-26
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Glorify God by Giving Thanks

A life that gives glory to God for his grace and a life of deepest gladness are the same life. And what makes them one is thankfulness.
2022-11-25
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Hold Fast to Your Hope

When Christ died for us, he did not buy the freedom from having to hold fast, but the enabling power to hold fast.
2022-11-24
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When God Swears by God

It is as unlikely that God will break his word of promise to bless us as it is that he will despise himself.
2022-11-23
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The Key to Spiritual Maturity

Getting ready to feast on all God?s word is not first an intellectual challenge; it is first a moral challenge.
2022-11-22
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The Gravity of Gratitude

A thankful spirit is others-exalting and glad-hearted. Therefore, pray for a great awakening of humble gratitude.
2022-11-21
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Five Reasons Death Is Gain

Death is gain because Christians will then be perfect, pain-free, rested, at home, and with Christ.
2022-11-20
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We All Need Help

Because we have a Great High Priest, the throne of God is a throne of grace.
2022-11-19
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The Piercing Power of the Word

The word of God is our only hope. It is sharp, living, and active. Therefore, be of good cheer in your battle to believe.
2022-11-18
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Change Is Possible

Don?t be a fatalist. Be a Christian. Change is possible. God is alive. Christ is risen. The promises are true.
2022-11-17
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When I Am Anxious

Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight ? to live by faith in future grace.
2022-11-16
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Fighting Words

When you feel discouraged and anxious, cling to God?s promises to be with you and uphold you.
2022-11-15
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The Marvel of Creation

When you marvel at the wonders of creation, do not marvel at the processes of chance but at the creativity of God.
2022-11-14
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Do Not Harden Your Heart

The Bible?s warnings are written that you might believe and endure, and have life.
2022-11-13
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How Satan Serves God

Satan cannot destroy us. In fact, God turns all his attacks finally against him and for us.
2022-11-12
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We Are His House

Becoming a Christian and being a Christian happen in the same way: by hoping in Jesus.
2022-11-11
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Wipe Your Fears Away

When anxiety blurs our vision of God?s glory, it does not mean that we are faithless. It means our faith is being attacked.
2022-11-10
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Marveling at the End of History

One day, we will see God?s glory, and marvel at it in such a way that he will be glorified in us for all the world to see.
2022-11-09
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We Honor What We Enjoy

It is possible to pursue God without glorifying God. If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue him for the joy of fellowship with him.
2022-11-08
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Is God?s Love Conditional?

There are precious experiences of the love of God that require that we fight pride, seek humility, and cherish the nearness of God.
2022-11-07
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Love One Another Gladly

Loving acts are genuine to the degree that they are not done begrudgingly.
2022-11-06
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Do You Neglect Your Salvation?

Being a Christian is a very serious business, though not a sour business. We are simply blood-earnest about being happy in our great salvation.
2022-11-05
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The Real Problem with Anxiety

What you thought was a mere struggle with an anxious disposition might really be a far deeper struggle with trusting God.
2022-11-04
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The Meaning of Suffering

It is truer in suffering than anywhere else that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
2022-11-03
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Rejoicing in Pain

Whether we focus on the riches of the reward or the refining effects of suffering, God?s purpose is that our joy in suffering be sustained.
2022-11-02
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Christ?s Sufferings in Us

We exhibit the sufferings of Christ when we ourselves suffer for those we are trying to win.
2022-11-01
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The Seminary of Suffering

God designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.
2022-10-31
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The Danger of Drifting

Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.
2022-10-30
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Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage

Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ?s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.
2022-10-29
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Radical Recompense

Jesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.
2022-10-28
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Possible with God

God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!
2022-10-27
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Medicine for the Missionary

?All things are possible with God!? ? in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.
2022-10-26
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The Great Missionary Hope

God?s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God?s purpose.
2022-10-25
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Christ Is Like Sunlight

We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.
2022-10-24
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God?s Final, Decisive Word

The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.
2022-10-23
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