The Powerful Root of Practical Love
Faith in God’s promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
Jun 29, 2025•4 min
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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Enduring When Obeying Hurts
What can sustain the will to die for others, when you are innocent? Jesus banked on love and future joy.
Jun 28, 2025•3 min
A Hiding Place for the Helpless
The experience of future grace often depends on whether we will take refuge in God, or whether we will run for cover to other shelters.
Jun 27, 2025•2 min
The Fear That Draws Us In
There is a fear that is slavish and drives us away from God, and there is a fear that is sweet and draws us to God.
Jun 26, 2025•3 min
The Death Trap Called Covetousness
What’s at stake in fleeing covetousness and fighting for contentment in future grace is eternal life.
Jun 25, 2025•3 min
I Can Be Content in Every Circumstance
Whenever we sense the slightest rise of covetousness in our hearts, we must turn on it and fight it with all our might using the weapons of faith.
Jun 24, 2025•4 min
Faith Honors Him Whom It Trusts
God is glorified when the power to be holy comes from humble faith in future grace.
Jun 23, 2025•3 min
How We Must Fight for Holiness
The fight for good works is a fight to believe in future grace. Therefore, learning to fight for holiness by faith in future grace is supremely important.
Jun 22, 2025•3 min
The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Faith embraces God — not just his promised gifts — as our treasure.
Jun 21, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 20, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 19, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 18, 2025•2 min
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.
Jun 17, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 16, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 15, 2025•2 min
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.
Jun 14, 2025•4 min
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.
Jun 13, 2025•4 min
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.
Jun 12, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 11, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 10, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 09, 2025•4 min
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.
Jun 08, 2025•3 min
We Live by Faith
The faith that justifies and the faith that sanctifies are not two different kinds of faith.
Jun 07, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 06, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 05, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 04, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 03, 2025•3 min
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.
Jun 02, 2025•4 min
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.
Jun 01, 2025•4 min
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.
May 31, 2025•4 min
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