Advent Readings From John Piper

From John Piper:

Dear Friends,

I’m excited to announce that our Advent ebook is newly revised and ready for December 2013 — and free of charge. It’s called Good News of Great Joy.

As you know, Advent is just around the corner. It starts the fourth Sunday before Christmas — this year, that’s December 1 — and is a season of preparation for Christmas Day.

A year ago, the team here at Desiring God did a deep dive into our thirty-plus-year reservoir of sermons and articles, and selected brief devotional readings for each day of Advent. Now we’ve slightly revised the ebook to have it optimized for 2013. Our hope is that God would use these readings to deepen and sweeten your adoration of Jesus this Advent.

Many contacted last year to ask for permission to print these devotionals not only for private use, but to share with friends and family — even their whole local congregation. We love that impulse to spread the joy, and gladly encourage you do so. Also, to serve as many as we can, we’re working with Amazon to make available a print-on-demand option, which should be ready in just a few days. We’ll make sure to announce it when that’s available, and update this post — you can check back here to see.

These daily devotionals correspond to the daily readings in our devotional app Solid Joys, which is available for free download in iTunes and Google Play, as well as online (also in Korean, both online and for Android). If you find short daily reflections like these helpful, we hope you’ll consider using Solid Joys once Advent is done.

Our prayer is that this eBook would help you keep Jesus as the center and greatest treasure of your Advent season. The candles and candies have their place, but we want to make sure that in all the Christmas rush and hubbub, we adore Jesus above all.

December is an important time for us at Desiring God. We give most of what we have away for free. This is possible because lots of thankful people help us make that happen. It would make us really glad if you would pray about how you might be involved in supporting our mission as this year comes to a close.

For Christ and his kingdom,

John Piper

with David Mathis, Executive Editor

To download Good News of Great Joy, click on the following format options:

• Download eBook as a PDF file.
• Download eBook as an EPUB file formatted for readers like the Nook, Sony Reader, and Apple iBooks (iPad, iPhone, iPod).
• Download eBook as a MOBI file formatted for Kindle applications (this option works well on some mobile devices, and not so well on others).

Note: To load the eBook on a mobile device it may be necessary to view this blog post from within your device and then to click the download option.