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The Year of Living Happy

Author : Alli Worthington

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 22,45 MB

Release : 2018-10-02

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 0310094909

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Take a daily step toward joy and contentment and ditch stress, overwhelming thoughts, and boredom with encouraging and biblical messages from Alli Worthington. You do your best to live life well—you work hard to be present in the moment, take care of the people in your life, knock it out of the park at work and home. And yet, somehow, you still have days (perhaps more than you'd like to admit) where you're simultaneously stressed and bored, and you wonder if you even know how to be happy. Is happiness a worthy goal? Does happiness matter to God, or does He only care about holier things? Alli Worthington gets it. As a wife, mother of five boys, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, she knows a thing or two about being busy, stressed, and happy in the midst of a crazy world! Over the years, she's seen how happiness gets a bad rap in Christian circles, and now she is standing up to shout the good news from the roof (or the internet, as the case may be): You are allowed to be happy! Yes, you! You can be happy right now! Join Alli for The Year of Living Happy: Finding Contentment and Connection in a Crazy World, and find the roots of your happiest life yet. Each of the 100 short and inspirational entries includes a thoughtful message from Alli, based on God’s Word practical ways to make your life happier day by day a journaling section This gorgeous book is an empowering gift for yourself or any woman you love. It can be used as a daily devotional or as a guided journal. Be part of this exciting message: Happiness and holiness can coexist for a beautiful life. Don’t miss the great big adventure God has for you. Let this be The Year of Living Happy!



Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence

Author : Rev. Fr. Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure

Publisher : TAN Books

Page : 151 pages

File Size : 21,13 MB

Release : 1984-10

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1618909169

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"To remain indifferent to good fortune or to adversity by accepting it all from the hand of God without questioning, not to ask for things to be done as we would like them but as God wishes, to make the intention of all our prayers that God's will should be perfectly accomplished in ourselves and in all creatures is to find the secret of happiness and content."



Is God Happy?

Author : Leszek Kolakowski

Publisher : Basic Books

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 44,38 MB

Release : 2013-02-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0465075746

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The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual—and everyday—life in the twentieth century. Kolakowski’s extraordinary empathy, humor, and erudition are on full display in Is God Happy?, the first collection of his work to be published since his death in 2009. Accessible and wide ranging, these essays—many of them translated into English for the first time—testify to the remarkable scope of Kolakowski’s work. From a provocative and deeply felt critique of Marxist ideology to the witty and self-effacing “In Praise of Unpunctuality” to a rigorous analysis of Erasmus’ model of Christianity and the future of religion, these essays distill Kolakowski’s lifelong engagement with the eternal problems of philosophy and some of the most vital questions of our age.



Divine Happiness

Author : Andrew C. Walton

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 41,17 MB

Release : 2015-11-12

Category :

ISBN : 9781518686542

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"A REVOLUTION IN PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION AND HAPPINESS!" Discover the unlimited peace, love, joy, power and freedom of your Limitless Self within. DIVINE HAPPINESS is the groundbreaking new book by Amazon Bestselling author Andrew C. Walton that empowers YOU to realize the magical power of your true Limitless Self. A revolutionary, NEW step-by-step guide for spiritual enlightenment that brings you the true power and freedom to effortlessly manifest all in life that YOU choose. Inspired by the author's own personal journey to Self-awakening he provides an inspirational and universal path to true Self-discovery, revealing the essential tools, higher knowledge and profound insights necessary for reaching the peaks of consciousness where you will discover the ultimate rewards of UNLIMITED PEACE, LOVE, HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM. Andrew guides you along the journey to experiencing the ascending levels of Self- awakening to the REALIZATION OF YOUR LIMITLESS SELF. As each level of awakening brings you a further expansion of consciousness, awareness, happiness, power and freedom so you will experience a wonderful transformation of your Self and a magical transformation of your world. When you read DIVINE HAPPINESS you will discover your Greatest Self, the amazing reason you are truly here and the real purpose of your life. You will discover and experience the unlimited love, joy, peace, power, oneness and freedom of your Limitless Self and awaken to the power of unlimited peace, love, freedom and happiness within you! Want a life without limits, a life of true happiness, freedom, power and ease to create as you choose? Want to join the growing numbers of fellow souls that have fully awakened and discovered the unlimited peace, love, happiness and power within? Ready for true unlimited Happiness? Then DIVINE HAPPINESS is ready and waiting for YOU!



Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (Revised Edition)

Author : John Piper

Publisher : Crossway

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 22,98 MB

Release : 2004-10-27

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1433517310

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Who is Jesus Christ? You've never met him in person, and you don't know anyone who has. But there is a way to know who he is. How? Jesus Christ-the divine Person revealed in the Bible-has a unique excellence and a spiritual beauty that speaks directly to our souls and says, "Yes, this is truth." It's like seeing the sun and knowing that it is light, or tasting honey and knowing that it is sweet. The depth and complexity of Jesus shatter our simple mental frameworks. He baffled proud scribes with his wisdom but was understood and loved by children. He calmed a raging storm with a word but would not get himself down from the cross. Look at the Jesus of the Bible. Keep your eyes open, and fill them with the portrait of Jesus in God's Word. Jesus said, "If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority." Ask God for the grace to do his will, and you will see the truth of his Son. John Piper has written this book in the hope that all will see Jesus for who he really is and will come to enjoy him above all else.



The Pleasures of God

Author : John Piper

Publisher : Multnomah

Page : 401 pages

File Size : 12,86 MB

Release : 2012-01-17

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1601422911

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The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia



Happiness

Author : Randy Alcorn

Publisher : NavPress

Page : 575 pages

File Size : 50,79 MB

Release : 2015-09-17

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1496403851

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Do you ever wonder whether God even cares if we’re happy? This world can be so hard, and we aren’t promised an easy road. But that’s not the whole story. The Bible is filled with verses that prove that ours is a God who not only loves celebrations but also desperately wants his children to experience happiness. Why else would he go to the lengths he did to ensure our eternal happiness in his presence? We know that we will experience unimaginable joy and happiness in heaven, but that doesn’t mean we can’t also experience joy and happiness here on earth. In Happiness, noted theologian Randy Alcorn (bestselling author of Heaven) dispels centuries of misconceptions about happiness, including downright harmful ideas like the prosperity gospel, and provides indisputable proof that God not only wants us to be happy, he commands it. Randy covers questions like: How can I cultivate happiness in my life? What’s the difference between joy and happiness? Can good things become idols that steal our happiness? Is seeking happiness selfish? How can I achieve happiness through gratitude? What does it look like to receive God’s grace? The most definitive study on the subject of happiness to date, this book is a paradigm-shifting wake-up call for the church and Christians everywhere.



Happiness

Author : Darrin M. McMahon

Publisher : Grove Press

Page : 572 pages

File Size : 31,18 MB

Release : 2006

Category : History

ISBN : 9780802142894

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An intellectual history of man's most elusive yet coveted goal. Today, we think of happiness as a natural right, but people haven't always felt this way. Historian McMahon argues that our modern belief in happiness is a recent development, the product of a revolution in human expectations carried out since the eighteenth century. He investigates that fundamental transformation by synthesizing two thousand years of politics, culture, and thought. In ancient Greek tragedy, happiness was considered a gift of the gods. During the Enlightenment men and women were first introduced to the novel prospect that they could--in fact should--be happy in this life as opposed to the hereafter. This recognition of happiness as a motivating ideal led to its consecration in the Declaration of Independence. McMahon then shows how our modern search continues to generate new forms of pleasure, but also, paradoxically, new forms of pain.--From publisher description.



God's Bucket List

Author : Teresa Tomeo

Publisher : Image

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 22,46 MB

Release : 2013-11-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0385346913

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From the popular EWTN TV and radio personality comes a to-do list that's just divine. Scripture tells us only God knows the desires of our hearts. It was, after all, God who placed them there because they are designed to lead us to His will for our lives. Why, then, is it so challenging at times to figure out if we are on the right track when it comes to what we believe we want or need? God's Bucket List will examine what God wants for each of us: mercy, fruitfulness, fellowship, and peace, just to name a few, and will explain what the Christian faith teaches about these gifts and how we can begin to achieve and cross out, one by one, the items on that heavenly list.



Something other than God

Author : Jennifer Fulwiler

Publisher : Ignatius Press

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 40,51 MB

Release : 2014-04-29

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1681491249

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Jennifer Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a twenty-first-floor condo where she could sip sauvignon blanc while watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin. Raised in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for herself and play by her own rules. Yet a creeping darkness followed her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the edge of her balcony, making her ask once and for all why anything mattered. At that moment everything she knew and believed was shattered. Asking the unflinching questions about life and death, good and evil, led Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was an awkward, sceptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her husband, concealing religious books in opaque bags as if they were porn and locking herself in public bathroom stalls to read the Bible. Just when Jennifer had a profound epiphany that gave her the courage to convert, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition-and the only treatment was directly at odds with the doctrines of her new-found faith. Something other than God is a poignant, profound and often funny tale of one woman who set out to find the meaning of life and discovered that true happiness sometimes requires losing it all.