Resources by Topic: Happiness

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy talks about the connection of suffering and being more like Christ.

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy speaks on the importance of God's Word in hard times. 

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy talks about the things we should avoid in hard times so we don't miss out on God's happiness. 

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy talks about the advantage of knowing and walking with Christ when hard times come.

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy talks about experiencing God's happiness in hard times. 

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy talks about Romans 8:18.

Randy Alcorn was interviewed by Pastor Todd Dubord with Mt. Lassen Community Church on the subject of happiness. In this clip, Randy elaborates on a quote of his about weak faith.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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.