The Dawning of Indestructible Joy Quotes

“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. MARK 10:45”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“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.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 JOHN 3:8”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“Thus says the Lord: the meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can’t be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy. It is God’s message of hope this Advent that what is good need never be lost and what is bad can be changed. The Devil works to take the good and bring the bad. And Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“Jesus was born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:18–20) and “increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52) and was perfectly obedient and sinless in all his life and ministry, all the way to the point of death, even death on a cross (Phil. 2:5–8; Heb. 4:15)—in order to destroy the works of the Devil—to take away sin.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“The deepest reason why we live for the glory of God is that God acts for the glory of God. We are passionate about God’s glory because God is passionate about God’s glory.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“Christmas is about the coming of the Son of Man who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” These words in Mark 10:45, as a brief expression of Christmas, are what I hope God will fix in your mind and heart this Advent. Open your heart to receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and to serve you all the rest of eternity. Receive this. Turn away from self-help and sin. Become like little children. Trust him. Trust him. Trust him with your life.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“One of the things pleasing in God’s sight is that his people keep on drawing near to him forever and ever. And so he is working in us this very thing.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“Advent is a season for thinking about the mission of God to seek and to save lost people from the wrath to come. God raised him from the dead, “Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:10). It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent.”
― John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent