Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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.

Episodes

December 16, 2025 3 mins
God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.
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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.
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December 14, 2025 3 mins
The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.
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December 13, 2025 2 mins
Our High Priest is seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. No Old Testament priest could ever say that.
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December 12, 2025 2 mins
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.
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December 11, 2025 5 mins
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.
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December 10, 2025 3 mins
Giving gifts to Christ is like fasting — going without something to show that Christ is more valuable than what you are going without.
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December 9, 2025 3 mins
Let this Christmas be the time when you ponder what it means — what it costs — to worship and follow Jesus, the Messiah.
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December 8, 2025 5 mins
God influenced the stars in the sky to get a little handful of foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they would worship his Son.
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December 7, 2025 2 mins
Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.
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December 6, 2025 3 mins
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.
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December 5, 2025 3 mins
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.
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December 4, 2025 4 mins
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
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December 3, 2025 2 mins
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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December 2, 2025 3 mins
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.
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December 1, 2025 3 mins
This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus’s arrival visible for your children.
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November 30, 2025 3 mins
No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God’s glory and believe.
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November 29, 2025 3 mins
Our greatest problem is alienation from God. The only solution is the blood of Christ.
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November 28, 2025 3 mins
At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one’s own greatness. But genuine gratitude glorifies God because it admits that we need him.
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November 27, 2025 2 mins
The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this: feel, think, and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.
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