Christ’s Sufferings in Us
We exhibit the sufferings of Christ when we ourselves suffer for those we are trying to win.
Nov 01, 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
The Seminary of Suffering
God designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.
Oct 31, 2024•3 min
The Danger of Drifting
Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.
Oct 30, 2024•3 min
Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage
Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.
Oct 29, 2024•5 min
Radical Recompense
Jesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.
Oct 28, 2024•3 min
Possible with God
God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!
Oct 27, 2024•3 min
Medicine for the Missionary
“All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.
Oct 26, 2024•3 min
The Great Missionary Hope
God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.
Oct 25, 2024•4 min
Christ Is Like Sunlight
We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.
Oct 24, 2024•3 min
God’s Final, Decisive Word
The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.
Oct 23, 2024•3 min
Hedonism for Husbands and Wives
When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.
Oct 22, 2024•4 min
The Mystery of Marriage
Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.
Oct 21, 2024•4 min
Prayer’s First Priority
The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.
Oct 20, 2024•3 min
Love’s Greatest Happiness
The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.
Oct 19, 2024•3 min
Jesus’s Joy in Marriage
Jesus did not want a dirty and unholy wife. Therefore, he was willing to die to cleanse her so that he could present her to himself.
Oct 18, 2024•4 min
The Purpose of Prosperity
You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.
Oct 17, 2024•3 min
Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy
It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.
Oct 16, 2024•3 min
Plan for Prayer
One of the main reasons we so often fail to have consistent habits of happy, fruitful prayer is simply that we don’t plan to.
Oct 15, 2024•3 min
God Heals by Humbling
God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.
Oct 14, 2024•4 min
The Master Servant
The very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.
Oct 13, 2024•4 min
Beware of Serving God
God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.
Oct 12, 2024•4 min
We Can Do Nothing
God is glorified when we turn away from ourselves to him in the confidence that he will provide the help we need.
Oct 11, 2024•4 min
Best Passage Ever
The greatest news is that the cross upholds the worth of God’s glory, the honor of his Son, and the eternal salvation of his elect.
Oct 10, 2024•4 min
God’s Wise Mercy
The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race.
Oct 09, 2024•3 min
Our Good Is God’s Delight
All the omnipotent energy that drives the heart of God to pursue his own glory also drives him to satisfy the hearts of those who seek their joy in him.
Oct 08, 2024•3 min
We Wait, He Works
Be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let God do that work. God loves to show his God-ness by working for us.
Oct 07, 2024•4 min
The Happy God
When we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.
Oct 06, 2024•3 min
Justice Will Be Done
When you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.
Oct 05, 2024•4 min
Joy Unbound
Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. One day, God’s delight in his Son will be in us.
Oct 04, 2024•3 min
Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love
God does not need us. Instead, his infinite self-sufficiency spills over in love to us who need him.
Oct 03, 2024•3 min
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