The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
Advent is for adoring Jesus.
The Christmas season is one of the busiest times of year. But it's also a season of reflection and preparation for that special day when we mark Immanuel's coming—the arrival of our eternal God in our own frail humanity.
This is the greatest of history's many wonders, something too stupendous to celebrate just on one day. Advent is a way of lengthening and intensifying the joy of Christmas.
These 25 brief devotional readings from John Piper begin on December 1 and carry us to Christmas Day. Our hope is that God would use these meditations to deepen and sweeten your adoration of Jesus and help you keep him at the center of your Christmas season.
Top Highlights
“What we need are reminders about the greatness of the old truths. We need someone to say an old truth in a fresh way. Or sometimes, just to say it.” (source)
“Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.” (source)
“In other words, if you want what Jesus has to give, you can’t buy it. You can’t trade for it. You can’t work for it. He already owns your money and everything you have. And when you work, it is only because he has given you life and breath and everything. All we can do is submit to his spectacular offer to be our servant.” (source)
“It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. ‘God so loved . . .’ And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.” (source)
“But there is another, deeper peace—a peace that must happen before there can be peace on earth. There must be peace between us and God. Our unbelief and his wrath must be removed. That is our deepest peace—and our deepest need at Christmas.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
- Author: Piper, John
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781433542398
John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don't Waste Your Life; and Providence.
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Matthew Lee
12/11/2021
Theologically, this is a good devotional, one of several we have used from John Piper. The downside to this one that we've noticed is that many of the entries repeat the same keyword so many times that it sounds ridiculous to read the passages out loud.
