Resources by Topic: Happiness

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy shares about Oswald Chambers and his view of happiness. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he discusses how the definition of happiness has changed over the last 100 years. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he explains how happiness helps connect us to others. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he shares a quote from Thomas Boston. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he shares quotes from Amy Carmichael, Blaise Pascal, Richard Sibbes and more. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he shares happiness quotes from Charles Spurgeon, Robert Culver, Matthew Henry and more. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he talks about how the church's desire to be happy motivated people to seek Jesus. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of happiness. In this clip, he shares some quotes about happiness and believers. For more information, see Randy's book Happiness. 

Positive people experience adversity, just as negative people do. Their expectations don’t control circumstances, but they do give perspective.

The Christian life is largely won and lost on the battlefield of ideas regarding what makes us happy. If we believe the lie that saying no to sin means saying no to happiness, then no amount of self-restraint will keep us from ultimately seeking happiness in sin.

Christians throughout church history understood that happiness, gladness, feasting, and partying are God’s gifts, yet many Christians today live as if faith drains happiness.

H. D. M. Spence-Jones (1836–1917) was a Cambridge graduate who taught Hebrew and was the general editor of The Pulpit Commentary. I was struck by his observation on Jeremiah 32:41, where God says, “I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.”

An easy-to-read chart showing the difference between these two DVD resources available for the study of Randy's Happiness book.

In 2016, Randy Alcorn spoke at Hope Chapel in Kihei, Hawaii on the subject of happiness. He spoke on the Biblical definition of happiness, happiness in Scripture, how depression and happiness relate, God's happiness and that through Christ we can be happy.