Joy - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0880281650 ISBN 13: 9780880281652

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Joy is becoming aware-often unexpectedly-of God's presence. James Fenhagen, Alan Jones, Desmond Tutu, Avery Brooke, and 20 other Christians tell their personal experiences of joy. Illustrations by Michael Podesta, Barron Krody and four other artists.

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Joy is not happiness. Happiness can be pursued and found. Joy finds us. Joy is becoming aware - usually suddenly and unexpectedly - of God's presence. Sometimes joy roars into our lives like a hurricane; sometimes it comes like a whispered "I love you." Kristen Johnson Ingram, Carroll Simcox, Catherine M. Wallace, Desmond Tutu and Twenty other articulate Christians tell - as words will allow - their understanding and personal experiences of joy.

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The way we commonly use the words happiness and joy seems to make them the same thing, differing only in degrees of intensity. Thus we might say that the fans of a football team are happy when their team scores the first touchdown, but are joyful when it scores the last one that wins the game. This is how most people see it. I wish to challenge it as an error that can do great harm to a Christian's understanding of joy as Jesus teaches and exemplifies it. The Man of Sorrows was also the world's supreme Man of Joy, and he invites us to share it with him.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0880281650
• ISBN 13: 9780880281652
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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