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The Joy Project: A True Story of Inescapable Happiness is unavailable, but you can change that!

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We think of our chase for joy as a fundamental right -- and it's no surprise. By nature we are pleasure-seekers, and we are also chronically unsuccessful at finding the type of joy that will endure for more than a passing moment. But what if long-lasting joy isn't found at all? What if the deepest and most durable happiness breaks into our lives,...

John Piper sums up the tragedy like this: “Total depravity is not just badness, but blindness to beauty and deadness to joy.” Our root problem is not that we break commandments; our problem is that we ignore God. Ignoring the beauty of God is the essence of total depravity. It’s what makes the depravity so holistic—we cannot begin to imagine how any real sense of pleasure or joy can be found in our Creator! To us sinners, God is only a boring obstacle to our pleasure. This dynamic is what makes our
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