Why You Have a Body
God will honor the work of his Son by raising our bodies from the dead, and we will use our bodies to glorify him forever.
Aug 03, 2024•3 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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Episodes
Afraid of Death No More
God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.
Aug 02, 2024•4 min
Our Weakness Reveals His Worth
Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.
Aug 01, 2024•3 min
Suffering That Crushes Faith
Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.
Jul 31, 2024•2 min
Suffering That Strengthens Faith
Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.
Jul 30, 2024•3 min
God’s Plan for Martyrs
Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.
Jul 29, 2024•4 min
Why We Don’t Lose Heart
Strengthen your heart and renew your courage by fixing your gaze on the invisible truth you see in the testimony of those who saw Christ face to face.
Jul 28, 2024•4 min
If You Don’t Fight Lust
If you don’t fight lust with a seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer forever.
Jul 27, 2024•4 min
What It Means to Love Money
The heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer.
Jul 26, 2024•3 min
Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense
The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.
Jul 25, 2024•4 min
Jesus Keeps His Sheep
Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith might not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.
Jul 24, 2024•3 min
How to Defy Sinful Desire
When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.
Jul 23, 2024•4 min
Preach to Yourself
Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
Jul 22, 2024•3 min
Models for Combating Discouragement
The Bible is replete with saints struggling with sunken spirits. But God includes such testimonies so that we might use them to fight the unbelief of despondency.
Jul 21, 2024•3 min
Grace for Every Need
Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.
Jul 20, 2024•3 min
His Timing Is Perfect
God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.
Jul 19, 2024•4 min
God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts
Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.
Jul 18, 2024•3 min
The Power to Profess Christ
Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.
Jul 17, 2024•3 min
Energy for Today’s To-Dos
Believe the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.
Jul 16, 2024•4 min
We Work by Grace
Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.
Jul 15, 2024•4 min
Ministry — More Important Than Life
You may think you need to save your life in order to do your ministry. On the contrary, how you lose your life may be the capstone of your ministry.
Jul 14, 2024•3 min
What Moves You to Minister?
Costly acts of love don’t just happen. They are impelled by a new appetite — the appetite of faith for the fullest experience of God’s grace. We want more of God.
Jul 13, 2024•3 min
Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear
The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.
Jul 12, 2024•4 min
We Experience the Spirit Through Faith
When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit.
Jul 11, 2024•4 min
Proud Works vs. Humble Faith
“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.
Jul 10, 2024•4 min
Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression
When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God.
Jul 09, 2024•4 min
Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness
Faith in God’s forgiveness means savoring the truth that a forgiving God is the most precious reality in the universe.
Jul 08, 2024•4 min
When Another Christian Hurts You
All the wrongs that have been done against us by believers were avenged in the death of Jesus. Look to the cross of Christ.
Jul 07, 2024•3 min
How Christ Conquered Bitterness
No one has ever lived who was more worthy of honor than Jesus; and no one has been dishonored more. But he triumphed by entrusting himself to God.
Jul 06, 2024•3 min
Give God Your Revenge
Your very soul is in danger if you hold on to an attitude of unforgiving bitterness. Leave it to the wrath of God.
Jul 05, 2024•4 min
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