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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.
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Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he purchased. Don’t put the gift on the shelf unopened.
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.
Jesus’s birth was not a coming into being of a new person, but a coming into the world of an infinitely old person.
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.
1Forgiven, 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.
Distrust God’s mercy, and all is lost. But conquer here, and nothing can harm you for a million ages.
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.
God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.
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.
The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.
Our High Priest is seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. No Old Testament priest could ever say that.
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.
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.
Giving gifts to Christ is like fasting — going without something to show that Christ is more valuable than what you are going without.
Let this Christmas be the time when you ponder what it means — what it costs — to worship and follow Jesus, the Messiah.
God influenced the stars in the sky to get a little handful of foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they would worship his Son.
Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.
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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God is infinitely energetic with absolutely unbounded and unending enthusiasm for the fulfilment of his delight.
I love this man indeed. God bless this amazing work.
Everything I need daily to as a reminder that God is in control. Love John Pipers devotionals.
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Excellent thought. Removes all anxiety