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Scripture Gives Us Many Reasons to Be Happy

October 19, 2018

When someone says, as many have, “Happiness isn’t in the Bible,” it’s not even slightly true. Even in versions that don’t frequently use the words happy and happiness, the concept is conspicuously present, not only in its many synonyms, but in words such as contentment, peace, delight, and dozens of others in every translation.

God’s Happiness Is Good News for Our Eternal Future

August 31, 2018

Does it really matter whether we believe that God is happy? Yes—it matters more than anything has ever mattered, or ever will. Upon it hinges, for instance, whether or not we can believe God’s promises, like those found in Romans 8.

Sin Brings Unhappiness, Righteousness Brings Happiness

July 23, 2018

Since lasting happiness can't be found apart from God, sin will never be a source of happiness.

Who Is the Happiest Human Being Who Ever Lived?

July 20, 2018

Though the answer wouldn’t be obvious to unbelievers or even to most Christians, the Bible is clear on this: it’s Jesus.

The Early Christians Experienced Happiness in Christ Despite Suffering; So Can We

April 11, 2018

Certainly first-century Christians experienced much heartbreak and persecution. But they also experienced happiness, celebration, and the abundant life in the midst of difficulty.

What’s So Good about the Good News?

December 15, 2017

The true gospel cannot be improved upon. Theologian J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937) said, “In the gospel there is included all that the heart of man can wish.”

Open Your Eyes to All the Gifts God Has Given You This Christmas

December 8, 2017

Sometimes focusing on God’s “big miracles”—like curing cancer and making brain tumors disappear—causes us to overlook His small, daily miracles of providence in which He holds the universe together, keeps our hearts beating, provides us with air to breathe and lungs to breathe it, and gives us food to eat and stomachs to digest it.

Do Holiness and Happiness Go Together?

November 27, 2017

In 2017, Randy Alcorn had the priviledge of speaking to a group of professional athletes on the subject of holiness and happiness. See his book Happiness for more information.

How Do Most People Respond to What You’ve Written About Happiness?

October 13, 2017

I find that most Christians are surprised but open to these ideas about happiness, including that God is a happy God and offers us His own happiness. Yet some remain doggedly determined to believe and teach that God doesn’t want His children happy and happiness is inherently wrong. This is so strange, because what loving father doesn’t want his children full of joy and happiness, in the right sense?

Increase Your Happiness by Enjoying God’s Creation

September 18, 2017

Since childhood, I’ve loved the stars. I loved them before I loved the God who made them. Loving God causes me to delight in the stars not less but more—partly because I can’t look at them without thinking of Him and partly because I know He loves His creation. When I enjoy the stars, I pay Him a compliment and join in His enjoyment.