Death Rehearsal
The lifetime of this year passes before our eyes, and we face the inevitable question: Did we live it well?
Dec 31, 2024•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
Outfitted and Empowered
When God works in our hearts by the blood of Christ, we feel and think and act in ways more pleasing to him.
Dec 30, 2024•4 min
A Horrible Destiny
Flee from the wrath of God, tremble with joy that you are saved, and rescue others along the way.
Dec 29, 2024•5 min
Glory Is the Goal
Study the glory of God. Treasure it in all things and above all things. Then study your soul. Know why you treasure glories that are not God’s glory.
Dec 28, 2024•4 min
What Is Your Aim?
God did not create humans in his image to be aimless, like lifeless leaves blown around in the backyard of life. He created us to be purposeful.
Dec 27, 2024•3 min
How to Contemplate Calamity
Christ’s death was judgment on him because he bore our sins (not his own), and it was mercy toward us who trust him.
Dec 26, 2024•9 min
Three Christmas Presents
Jesus offers you a clear purpose for living, hope that your failures will be forgiven, and help in your fight against sin.
Dec 25, 2024•8 min
Two Purposes for Christmas
Jesus appeared in the world for two reasons: to help us stop sinning, and to satisfy God’s anger when we do sin.
Dec 24, 2024•4 min
God’s Indescribable Gift
Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he purchased. Don’t put the gift on the shelf unopened.
Dec 23, 2024•4 min
That You May Believe
The whole Bible is written that you might be awakened to the wonder that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came into the world.
Dec 22, 2024•4 min
The Birth of the Ancient of Days
Jesus’s birth was not a coming into being of a new person, but a coming into the world of an infinitely old person.
Dec 21, 2024•4 min
Christmas Solidarity
If you want to give a gift to God this Christmas, walk off the assembly line of sin and don’t go back. Take up your place, instead, in the picket line of love.
Dec 20, 2024•3 min
Christmas Is for Freedom
Forgiven, we are indestructible. Satan’s plan was to condemn God’s followers in God’s own courtroom. But now, in Christ, there is no condemnation.
Dec 19, 2024•5 min
The Christmas Model for Missions
Distrust God’s mercy, and all is lost. But conquer here, and nothing can harm you for a million ages.
Dec 18, 2024•3 min
The Greatest Salvation Imaginable
God put our sins on his Son and judged them there, so that he could put them out of his mind, and deal with us mercifully and remain just.
Dec 17, 2024•4 min
God’s Most Successful Setback
God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.
Dec 16, 2024•4 min
Life and Death at Christmas
Jesus came that we might have Life, now and forever. Make your Now the richer and deeper this Christmas by drinking at the fountain of Forever. It is so near.
Dec 15, 2024•4 min
Making It Real for His People
The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.
Dec 14, 2024•3 min
The Final Reality Is Here
Our High Priest is seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. No Old Testament priest could ever say that.
Dec 13, 2024•3 min
Replacing the Shadows
Jesus came to orient all our attention on himself, ministering for us first on Calvary as our final Sacrifice and then in heaven as our final Priest.
Dec 12, 2024•2 min
Why Jesus Came
In dying, Christ de-fanged the devil. How? By covering all our sin. This means that Satan has no legitimate grounds to accuse us before God.
Dec 11, 2024•6 min
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
Giving gifts to Christ is like fasting — going without something to show that Christ is more valuable than what you are going without.
Dec 10, 2024•4 min
Two Kinds of Opposition to Jesus
Let this Christmas be the time when you ponder what it means — what it costs — to worship and follow Jesus, the Messiah.
Dec 09, 2024•3 min
Bethlehem’s Supernatural Star
God influenced the stars in the sky to get a little handful of foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they would worship his Son.
Dec 08, 2024•5 min
Messiah for the Magi
Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.
Dec 07, 2024•2 min
Peace to Those with Whom He Is Pleased
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.
Dec 06, 2024•4 min
No Detour from Calvary
God could have seen to it that Jesus have a room at his birth. But that would have been a detour off the Calvary road.
Dec 05, 2024•3 min
For God’s Little People
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
Dec 04, 2024•4 min
The Long-Awaited Visitation
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
Dec 03, 2024•2 min
Mary’s Magnificent God
The only people whose soul can truly magnify the Lord are people like Elizabeth and Mary. So, this Advent, imitate their lowliness and cheerful humility.
Dec 02, 2024•3 min
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