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The Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is happiness? The immediate gratification of our physical and emotional desires? A sense of satisfaction brought about through consumerism or other promises of short-term enjoyment? Our twenty-first-century views of happiness are not what the writers of the Bible had in mind. Nor are they what the ancient Greeks or the drafters of the Declaration of Independence envisioned. Such false ideas...

world as well as occasionally in our fellowships, there is a steady development of vibrant Christians who out-live, out-think, and out-die those who practice a rival religion or ideology. But unfortunately, these examples are uncommon. What is wrong with the church today? I (J. P.) don’t believe we lift our eyes high enough. I don’t believe we see the magnificence of the Lord of Scripture, the glory of His work on the Cross, or the beauty of human relationships He has founded on the relational wealth
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