Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life's Most Elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality - Couverture souple

Barnabas Piper

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784984752 ISBN 13 : 9781784984755

Editeur : The Good Book Company, 2020

Synopsis

A biblical framework for living a grounded, hopeful and genuinely happy life.

Everyone wants to be happy, and we all pursue happiness in different ways. Some people are thrill-seekers; others are homebodies. Some people are loners; others love big families or communities. Some people express things creatively; others consume what is created. Some sing; others listen to music. Whatever we find happiness in, we are united by our desire for work that matters and relationships that fulfil.

As Christians, we often fall into the trap of basing our hopes on earthly things, even when we know they only make us happy for a short time. But how are we to experience happiness in this life? How do we avoid expecting too much of earthly things and being disappointed, or expecting too little and becoming cynics?

In this book, recovering cynic Barnabas Piper helps us to throw off both the unrealistic expectations that end in disappointment and the guilty sense that Christians are not meant to have fun. He shows how having a clear view of the reality of the fall and the promise of redemption frees us to live a life that’s grounded, hopeful and genuinely happy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barnabas Piper is Director for Community at Immanuel Nashville. He cohosts the Happy Rant podcast and blogs at BarnabasPiper.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Good Book Company
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784984752
• ISBN 13: 9781784984755
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible