Solid Joys Daily Devotional
byDesiring God
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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(40 episodes)
Five Ways Affliction Helps
Suffering has a great sin-killing effect. The more pure we are, the more clearly we see God.
Published: Feb 4, 2026Duration: 3:55
The Greatest Love
We should emphasize that God loves and forgives for his own glory because the Bible does, and because it makes clear that God loves us with the greatest love.
Published: Feb 3, 2026Duration: 4:12
The Forgiveness Cycle
God forgave us when we first believed in Christ. Then, from that broken, joyful, grateful, hopeful experience of being forgiven, we offer forgiveness to others.
Published: Feb 2, 2026Duration: 3:41
Included in the Covenant
Christians are included in the Davidic covenant. What David received, we will also receive in Christ Jesus.
Published: Feb 1, 2026Duration: 3:49
Five Purposes for Suffering
Don’t let your ignorance of the micro reasons for suffering cause you to overlook the massive help God tells us in his word of his macro purposes for us.
Published: Jan 31, 2026Duration: 4:59
Prevailing Grace
Irresistable grace does not mean grace cannot be resisted. It means that when God chooses, he can and will overcome that resistance.
Published: Jan 30, 2026Duration: 4:38
Caused to Return
There is no hope for God’s people unless he causes them to return from their leaping into sin and unbelief.
Published: Jan 29, 2026Duration: 3:03
How to Repent
Feeling rotten about your sin is not the same as repenting from it. But it can lead there.
Published: Jan 28, 2026Duration: 4:17
He Knows Your Need
The same God who feeds billions of birds every hour around the world will take care of you.
Published: Jan 27, 2026Duration: 3:38
The Giver Gets the Glory
We get the help; God gets the glory. That arrangement keeps us humble and happy, and keeps him supreme and glorious.
Published: Jan 26, 2026Duration: 2:44
Delayed Deliverances
Times of suffering and deliverance are both God’s stages of care for you. He has not left you or forsaken you.
Published: Jan 25, 2026Duration: 2:38
Served in Serving Others
Jesus will take care of you when you take care of others. That’s why there were leftovers after Jesus fed the multitudes.
Published: Jan 24, 2026Duration: 2:24
Go Directly to God
Jesus provides an ever-present, ever-living witness to the removal of the Father’s wrath from us.
Published: Jan 23, 2026Duration: 3:32
We Will Rule All Things
When Jesus says, “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne,” he promises us a share in the rule of all things.
Published: Jan 22, 2026Duration: 3:45
The Anchor of Joy
Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.
Published: Jan 21, 2026Duration: 2:58
The Battle to Remind
If we don’t call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. Never forget that our God is the God of the impossible.
Published: Jan 20, 2026Duration: 3:25
How to Serve a Bad Boss
Every little thing you do that is good is seen and valued and rewarded by the Lord. And he will pay you back for it.
Published: Jan 19, 2026Duration: 4:41
The Remedy for Pride
Yield to the sovereignty of God in all the details of life, and rest in his infallible promises to show himself mighty on your behalf.
Published: Jan 18, 2026Duration: 4:36
Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come
Receive Christ, welcome Christ, embrace Christ — not just as your fire insurance policy, but as your eagerly awaited Treasure and Friend and Lord.
Published: Jan 17, 2026Duration: 2:36
Words for the Wind
Be patient and loving as despairing people wake up from their dark night and regret their hasty words.
Published: Jan 16, 2026Duration: 3:26