by John Piper | Apr 24, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Romans 8:11, Hebrews 12:2, Luke 14:12-14 God is profoundly concerned with your body. If he weren’t, he would let it rot in the grave and tell you to say good riddance. But he never says that. No, God created you with a body and he created you for his glory....
by John Piper | Apr 22, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Corrie ten Boom tells how she worried as a girl whether she would be able to stand against the Germans if she was threatened. She felt so weak when she thought about what might happen. Her father, I think it was, gave her a great illustration. He said, “When you are...
by John Piper | Apr 20, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Ephesians 1, Acts 14:22 God’s great desire for his people is that we feel secure in his love and in his power. Everything else in life may be unstable—our health, our family, our job, our education, our society, our world. At any of these levels you may feel as...
by John Piper | Apr 19, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Isaiah 44:3 Do you know why it is easier to be nice to people on Friday than it is on Monday? Isn’t it because hope is like a river that flows into us from a bright future, fills up the reservoir of our joy, and then overflows in kindness to others? On Friday...
by John Piper | Apr 18, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Psalm 119:142, Hebrews 6:18, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Isaiah 55:10-11, Psalm 12:6, John 17:17 Time after time the Scriptures help us make sense out of life’s puzzles: failing marriages, rebellious children, drug addiction, warring nations, the return of leaves in...
by John Piper | Apr 17, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: 1 Corinthians 2:10-12, John 1:1-3, Romans 8:9-11, John 17:26 The Holy Spirit is God. The person who indwells us, leads us, and purifies us is no one less than God, the Holy Spirit. The simple evidence for this is the frequent designation “Spirit of God.” The...
