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    The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
    The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
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    The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9781433542398
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    John Piper

     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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    The Dawning of

    Indestructible Joy

    DAILY READINGS FOR ADVENT

    JOHN PIPER

    The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

    Copyright © 2014 by Desiring God Foundation

    Published by Crossway

    1300 Crescent Street

    Wheaton, Illinois 60187

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

    Cover design: Erik Maldre

    Cover image: The Bridgeman Art Library

    First printing 2014

    Printed in the United States of America

    Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. 2011 Text Edition. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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    Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-4236-7

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    Piper, John, 1946-

        [Meditations. Selections]

        The Dawning of indestructible joy : daily readings for Advent / John Piper.

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        1. Advent—Meditations. 2. Bible. New Testament—Devotional use. I. Title.

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    Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

    To Sam Storms,

    comrade in Christian Hedonism,

    precious friend for indestructible joy.

    Contents

    Preface

    Introduction    Praying for Fullness This Christmas

    (John 1:14–16)

    December 1    The Search-and-Save Mission (Luke 19:10)

    December 2    Prepare Your Heart for Christ (John 5:44)

    December 3    Draw Near to the Savior (Heb. 13:20–21)

    December 4    What Advent Is All About (Mark 10:45)

    December 5    Why Christmas Happened (1 John 3:5, 8)

    December 6    God’s Passion for God at Christmas

    (John 12:27–28)

    December 7    He Comes to Bless Us (Acts 3:22–26)

    December 8    God Can Be Trusted (Acts 3:22–26)

    December 9    Why the Son of Man? (John 1:51)

    December 10   What Christmas Came to Destroy

    (1 John 3:8)

    December 11   The Celebration of God’s Love (John 3:16)

    December 12   The Glory of the Word Made Flesh

    (John 1:1)

    December 13   Christmas Cut History in Half (Acts 3:24)

    December 14   The Mercy He Promises (Rom. 15:8–9)

    December 15    Our Truest Treasure (Matt. 2:10)

    December 16   Freed to Be Part of God’s Family

    (Mark 10:45)

    December 17   He Came to Serve (Mark 10:44)

    December 18   Graciously and Tenderly Frustrating

    (Rom. 3:25–26)

    December 19   The Gift You Cannot Buy (Acts 17:24–25)

    December 20    Receive His Reconciliation (Rom. 5:11)

    December 21   Get Your Eyes Ready for Christmas

    (Matt. 16:15–17)

    December 22   Something Worth Singing About

    (Heb. 8:4–10)

    December 23   Our Deepest Need at Christmas

    (Mic. 5:4–5)

    December 24   Enjoy All the Promises of God (Mic. 5:2–4)

    December 25   Grace: The Dominant Note of Christmas

    (John 6:51)

    Conclusion      A Savior Is Born! God Gets the Glory,

    You Get the Peace (Luke 2:11–14)

    A Word of Thanks

    Desiring God: A Note on Resources

    Preface

    I feel like the apostle Peter at the end of his life, as he wrote his second letter. Twice he told his readers why he was writing to them. In the first chapter he said, I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder (2 Pet. 1:13). Then, in the last chapter, he said it again: I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder (2 Pet. 3:1).

    His aim was first to remind them. And then, by reminding them, to stir them up. That’s what this little book of Advent devotional readings is for—reminders and stirrings.

    The Greek word for stir up is used most often for waking someone from sleep. That’s the way it’s used, for example, in Mark 4:39: "[Jesus] awoke and rebuked the wind." Peter assumes that his Christian readers need to be wakened. I know I continually need awakening. Especially when Christmas approaches.

    I am prone to be dull, spiritually drowsy, halfhearted, lukewarm. That is the way human beings are, including Christians, even about great things. Peter knows it and is writing to awaken or to stir up his readers so that they don’t just know but also

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