Fifteen Tactics for Joy
In this life of sin and pain, how shall we fight for joy? Here are fifteen ways.
Apr 30, 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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The Day Is at Hand
The age of sin and misery and death is almost spent. The day of righteousness and peace and total joy is dawning.
Apr 29, 2025•3 min
The Great Exchange
Our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. That is the great exchange — and it becomes ours not by works but by faith.
Apr 28, 2025•3 min
Children of a Singing God
It could not be otherwise but that Christianity be a singing faith. The founder sang. We are a singing people because we are the children of a singing God.
Apr 27, 2025•3 min
You Were Made for God
When we speak of being a God-centered people, remember, this is because we are joining God in his God-centeredness.
Apr 26, 2025•4 min
Paul’s Salvation Was for You
The point of Paul’s conversion happening the way it did is to make Christ’s incredible patience vivid for you.
Apr 25, 2025•4 min
The Liberating Power of Forgiveness
When we live by faith, rooted in God’s forgiveness, we are freed from the lingering, paralyzing effects even of shame we deserve to feel.
Apr 24, 2025•4 min
Seek Your City’s Good
Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.
Apr 23, 2025•3 min
Five Reasons to Be Fearless
Not being afraid shows that you treasure God as your generous Shepherd, Father, and King.
Apr 22, 2025•4 min
The Key to Radical Love
The key to joy is faith in God’s future grace — that is, being satisfied in all that God promises to be for us.
Apr 21, 2025•5 min
Afraid to Stray
Cherish the goodness of the Lord, fear straying from him, flee from every sin, and take refuge in him.
Apr 20, 2025•4 min
A Future for Failures
This is the gospel: Even though you have sinned greatly, nevertheless there is a future and a hope. Fear not!
Apr 19, 2025•4 min
God, Touch Our Hearts
The One with infinite power in the universe reaches down to personally touch and transform us.
Apr 18, 2025•4 min
Embracing Jesus
Faith in Christ is not just assenting to what God is for us, but also embracing all that he is for us in Christ.
Apr 17, 2025•5 min
Mercy for Today
We won’t bear tomorrow’s load on today’s resources. Today’s mercies are for today’s troubles. Tomorrow’s mercies are for tomorrow’s troubles.
Apr 16, 2025•3 min
Don’t Be Like the Mule
Come to God in prayer, to confess your sins, and to accept, as needy little farmyard chicks, the direction of God into the barn of his protection and provision.
Apr 15, 2025•3 min
Pray for His Fame
God delights in having his name known and honored. The first and most important prayer that can be prayed is, “Hallowed be your name.”
Apr 14, 2025•3 min
Talk to Your Tears
Sheer sowing produces reaping. You must remember this, even when your tears tempt you to give up.
Apr 13, 2025•3 min
You Cannot Lose in the End
Trust Christ, no matter what. Go with him, no matter where. You cannot lose in the end.
Apr 12, 2025•4 min
The Great King’s Wine
When you are cast into the cellars of affliction, remember that the great King keeps his best wine there.
Apr 11, 2025•3 min
What Is Well-Placed Shame?
The biblical criterion for misplaced shame and for well-placed shame is radically God-centered.
Apr 10, 2025•3 min
Talk to God, Not Just About Him
It is good not to talk very long about God without talking to God. Frequently interrupt your talking about God by talking to God.
Apr 09, 2025•3 min
Make Satan Know His Defeat
When Christ died and rose again, Satan was defeated. Jesus struck the decisive blow at Calvary.
Apr 08, 2025•3 min
What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy
Don’t just do good things for your enemies. Desire their best, and express those desires in prayer, even when they’re nowhere around.
Apr 07, 2025•3 min
Two Ways to Remember Jesus
Jesus is not just alive from the dead, but he is alive as the King who will reign forever — of his kingdom there will be no end.
Apr 06, 2025•3 min
The Books at the Judgment
Salvation is secured for all who are written in the book of life, not because of their deeds, but because Christ was slain for them.
Apr 05, 2025•5 min
God Strengthens Us Through Others
Sometimes God will strengthen your faith directly. But most of the time, he does so through another person.
Apr 04, 2025•3 min
How to Respond When You Falter
O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.
Apr 03, 2025•3 min
Better Than Everest
If you live inside the massive promise of Romans 8:28, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest.
Apr 02, 2025•2 min
Two of Our Deepest Needs
In the Father, you are under God’s care and protection. In the Son, you are under God’s charge and authority.
Apr 01, 2025•3 min
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