Devastated and Delighted
This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.
Sep 02, 2024•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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He Does All That He Pleases
God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.
Sep 01, 2024•4 min
The Lion and the Lamb
The worth and beauty of the Son come not just from his majesty, nor just from his meekness, but from the way these mingle in perfect proportion.
Aug 31, 2024•3 min
Church Growth God’s Way
By all means work. But always look to the Lord for the decisive, supernatural work needed to fulfill his purposes.
Aug 30, 2024•4 min
Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus
Never grow weary of exploring and exulting in the inexhaustible privilege of being “in Christ Jesus.”
Aug 29, 2024•3 min
Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake
The Father’s infinite pleasure in his own perfections is the fountain of our everlasting joy and forgiveness.
Aug 28, 2024•4 min
Jesus Will Trample All Our Enemies
The extent of Christ’s reign reaches to the smallest and biggest enemy of his glory in your life, and in this universe. It will be defeated.
Aug 27, 2024•2 min
Shadows and Streams
God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself.
Aug 26, 2024•3 min
When God’s Love Is Sweetest
The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.
Aug 25, 2024•4 min
The Message of Creation
Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.
Aug 24, 2024•3 min
God Is Not an Idolater
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.
Aug 23, 2024•3 min
Pleased to Praise
If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.
Aug 22, 2024•4 min
An Unshakably Happy God
God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.
Aug 21, 2024•4 min
Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For
The Bible is a window that opens onto the sunrise glory of the risen Christ.
Aug 20, 2024•3 min
What the Resurrection Means for Us
Christ’s resurrection is God’s declaration that we cannot work our way to glory, but that he intends to do the impossible to get us there.
Aug 19, 2024•3 min
Hope to Obey Hard Commands
You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.
Aug 18, 2024•3 min
What It Means to Bless the Lord
Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.
Aug 17, 2024•3 min
Why You Give In to Sexual Sin
If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.
Aug 16, 2024•2 min
What We Were Made For
All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.
Aug 15, 2024•3 min
God Forgives and Is Still Just
The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.
Aug 14, 2024•4 min
Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves
The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.
Aug 13, 2024•4 min
My Soul Thirsts for God
When we see the face of Christ, we see the face of God. And we see the glory of his face when we hear the story of the gospel of his death and resurrection.
Aug 12, 2024•3 min
The Different Tenses of Grace
Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.
Aug 11, 2024•4 min
Have Mercy on Me, O God
We know more of the mystery of our redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did.
Aug 10, 2024•2 min
The End of the Gospel
The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.
Aug 09, 2024•3 min
Ruler of All Nature
Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.
Aug 08, 2024•3 min
The Point of Creation
God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.
Aug 07, 2024•3 min
Jesus Bought Your Endurance
God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.
Aug 06, 2024•3 min
10 Things “Yahweh” Means
Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.
Aug 05, 2024•5 min
As Secure as God Is Faithful
Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.
Aug 04, 2024•2 min
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