Where Our Comfort Comes From
Pilate’s authority over Jesus was subordinate to God’s authority over Pilate. So, Jesus did not fear.
Mar 01, 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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Finally and Totally Justified
God declares us righteous, which gives us unshakable security in the face of tremendous suffering.
Feb 28, 2025•3 min
Radical Effects of the Resurrection
The hope of the resurrection radically changed the way Paul lived. His life counted. His suffering was meaningful.
Feb 27, 2025•4 min
When God Becomes 100% for Us
God’s wrath was once on us. But because he made us alive, all that wrath is removed. He is now 100% for us.
Feb 26, 2025•5 min
You Are Greatly Loved
Take heart. If you have faith in Jesus, God himself declares, “You are greatly loved.”
Feb 25, 2025•3 min
God Opens the Heart
The clearest answer in Acts to the question why a person believes the gospel is that God opens the heart.
Feb 24, 2025•4 min
The Hour of Unusual Threat
Those who suffer for Christ will receive the Holy Spirit’s power and rest at their greatest hour of need.
Feb 23, 2025•4 min
Enjoying His Fullness
The fullness of Jesus Christ is a divine, accessible, glorious, delivered, blessed, true fullness.
Feb 22, 2025•4 min
Our Servant, Jesus
Jesus Christ is exuberant with omnipotent service for the sake of all who trust him.
Feb 21, 2025•4 min
Amazed at the Resurrection
Because of Jesus’s resurrection, he now has the glory for which we were made. Our ultimate destiny is to see him as he is.
Feb 20, 2025•3 min
The Kind of Cold That Kills
When it’s forty degrees warmer in your freezer than it is outside, the message is clear: Don’t mess with God.
Feb 19, 2025•3 min
When You Are Immortal
Christ said Paul was going to Rome. And that was that. No ambush can stand against the promise of Christ.
Feb 18, 2025•3 min
The Sweet Designs of God
Oh, how sweet are the designs of God in the sovereign salvation of hardened, hopeless sinners!
Feb 17, 2025•4 min
When Obedience Feels Impossible
Do you desire God? Will you trust him? The word of God to you is: God is worthy and God is able.
Feb 16, 2025•3 min
Every Calvary Step Was Love
Every step Jesus took on the Calvary road meant, “I love you. I love you. I love you.”
Feb 15, 2025•3 min
Christ as Means and End
Jesus is the end for which the universe was made, and the means that makes that end possible to enjoy.
Feb 14, 2025•4 min
The Perfect City
When you desire the city of God above everything else on the earth, he is not ashamed to be called your God. Your life pleases him.
Feb 13, 2025•2 min
Lincoln’s Providence
It is a most striking thing how personal and national suffering drew Abraham Lincoln into the reality of God, rather than pushing him away.
Feb 12, 2025•4 min
The Best Form of Slavery
Amazingly, Paul connects our liberation with Jesus as our Master, and he connects our new slavery with Jesus as our Messiah.
Feb 11, 2025•3 min
Saving Faith Isn’t Easily Satisfied
Living and dying by faith means having new desires and seeking new satisfactions.
Feb 10, 2025•2 min
Better Than Money, Sex, and Power
Take all the things that drive this world, and ponder how much better and more abiding God is.
Feb 09, 2025•3 min
Are You Glad You Are Not God?
Submitting to God enables us to have the supremely satisfying experience of not being God, but admiring the Godness of God.
Feb 08, 2025•4 min
Eleventh-Hour Breakthroughs
God surely has reasons for waiting to give you the breakthrough you have sought for decades. Keep asking in hope.
Feb 07, 2025•4 min
Reviled Here, Rewarded There
Because Jesus died in our place, he guaranteed that every good deed will prosper — sooner or later.
Feb 06, 2025•4 min
The Main Purpose of Ministry
The main task of all the ministries of the church is helping people see the greatness of what Christ has purchased for everyone who will value it above the world.
Feb 05, 2025•3 min
Five Ways Affliction Helps
Suffering has a great sin-killing effect. The more pure we are, the more clearly we see God.
Feb 04, 2025•4 min
The Greatest Love
We should emphasize that God loves and forgives for his own glory because the Bible does, and because it makes clear that God loves us with the greatest love.
Feb 03, 2025•4 min
The Forgiveness Cycle
God forgave us when we first believed in Christ. Then, from that broken, joyful, grateful, hopeful experience of being forgiven, we offer forgiveness to others.
Feb 02, 2025•4 min
Included in the Covenant
Christians are included in the Davidic covenant. What David received, we will also receive in Christ Jesus.
Feb 01, 2025•4 min
Five Purposes for Suffering
Don’t let your ignorance of the micro reasons for suffering cause you to overlook the massive help God tells us in his word of his macro purposes for us.
Jan 31, 2025•5 min
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