Prevailing Grace
Irresistable grace does not mean grace cannot be resisted. It means that when God chooses, he can and will overcome that resistance.
Jan 30, 2025•5 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
Caused to Return
There is no hope for God’s people unless he causes them to return from their leaping into sin and unbelief.
Jan 29, 2025•3 min
How to Repent
Feeling rotten about your sin is not the same as repenting from it. But it can lead there.
Jan 28, 2025•4 min
He Knows Your Need
The same God who feeds billions of birds every hour around the world will take care of you.
Jan 27, 2025•4 min
The Giver Gets the Glory
We get the help; God gets the glory. That arrangement keeps us humble and happy, and keeps him supreme and glorious.
Jan 26, 2025•3 min
Delayed Deliverances
Times of suffering and deliverance are both God’s stages of care for you. He has not left you or forsaken you.
Jan 25, 2025•3 min
Served in Serving Others
Jesus will take care of you when you take care of others. That’s why there were leftovers after Jesus fed the multitudes.
Jan 24, 2025•2 min
Go Directly to God
Jesus provides an ever-present, ever-living witness to the removal of the Father’s wrath from us.
Jan 23, 2025•4 min
We Will Rule All Things
When Jesus says, “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne,” he promises us a share in the rule of all things.
Jan 22, 2025•4 min
The Anchor of Joy
Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.
Jan 21, 2025•3 min
The Battle to Remind
If we don’t call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. Never forget that our God is the God of the impossible.
Jan 20, 2025•3 min
How to Serve a Bad Boss
Every little thing you do that is good is seen and valued and rewarded by the Lord. And he will pay you back for it.
Jan 19, 2025•5 min
The Remedy for Pride
Yield to the sovereignty of God in all the details of life, and rest in his infallible promises to show himself mighty on your behalf.
Jan 18, 2025•5 min
Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come
Receive Christ, welcome Christ, embrace Christ — not just as your fire insurance policy, but as your eagerly awaited Treasure and Friend and Lord.
Jan 17, 2025•3 min
Words for the Wind
Be patient and loving as despairing people wake up from their dark night and regret their hasty words.
Jan 16, 2025•3 min
The Freeness of Grace
What act could be more one-sidedly free and non-negotiated than one person raising another from the dead? This is the meaning of grace.
Jan 15, 2025•4 min
The Window of the Heart
Our emotions are governed in large measure by what we consider — what we dwell on with our minds.
Jan 14, 2025•3 min
The Command That Creates
When the command of God comes with the creating, converting power of the Holy Spirit, it gives life. And we believe and rejoice and obey.
Jan 13, 2025•4 min
The Experiential Key
Freedom from greed comes from the deeply satisfying faith in God’s future grace.
Jan 12, 2025•3 min
Passionate for God and Truth
If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think.
Jan 11, 2025•4 min
How Believers Will Be Judged
When God judges believers in the end, he will forgive us all our sins and grant us life everlasting.
Jan 10, 2025•4 min
Only a Little While
God is not the God of some grace. He is the God of all grace — including the infinite, inexhaustible stores of future grace that we need to endure to the end.
Jan 09, 2025•2 min
Gain What You Cannot Lose
Christ promises to work for us, and to be for us so much that, when our missionary life is over, we will not be able to say we’ve sacrificed anything.
Jan 08, 2025•3 min
Grace Denied and Supplied
God gives both the sustaining grace we need in times of trouble, and the suffering which makes us depend on his grace.
Jan 07, 2025•4 min
God’s Will Is That You Draw Near
This is God’s will for you and this is why Christ died: that you would draw near to God.
Jan 06, 2025•3 min
Our Toothless Enemy
Satan is helpless to do the one thing he wants to do most: damn us. Christ bore our damnation.
Jan 05, 2025•3 min
Hope for Imperfect Christians
Does your faith make you eager to forsake sin and make progress in holiness? That’s the kind of faith God requires.
Jan 04, 2025•2 min
The Smallest Faith
The strength of your faith does not uproot trees. God does. The object of your faith is more important than the quantity of your faith.
Jan 03, 2025•4 min
What Jesus Did to Death
If you are a Christian, death is no longer a punishment for sin. Your sin has been put away by the death of Christ. Christ took the punishment.
Jan 02, 2025•3 min
Grace for the New Year
Be thankful for the past grace from the last year, and be confident in the future grace for the new year.
Jan 01, 2025•3 min
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