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Pastor, professor, and author David Murray says this about Randy Alcorn’s book Happiness: The most comprehensive Christian treatment of happiness I know, resulting in one of the most enjoyable, exciting, and exuberant books of theology I’ve read in a long time. It’s one of those rare, potentially life-changing books that has the ability to positively transform our view of God, the Bible, the world, and the Christian life.

In my opinion some of the most judgmental thinking surfaces when someone makes the accusation of being judgmental—as if that accusation is the only one immune to being made with a judgmental spirit. 

The new Happiness: God’s Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy study deals with an issue that’s important for us as followers of Jesus and critical to our mission of sharing Him with our world.

In this teaser from session 6 of the DVD accompanying the study for Happiness: God's Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy, Randy Alcorn explores how Heaven, the dwelling place of God, will be the home of happiness. For more information, check out the Happiness Leader Kit. 

In this teaser from session 5 of the DVD accompanying the study for Happiness: God's Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy, Randy Alcorn talks about how seeking holiness in Christ brings us true happiness. For more information, check out the Happiness Leader Kit. 

In this teaser from session 4 of the DVD accompanying the study for Happiness: God's Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy, Randy Alcorn explores how when we seek our happiness outside of Christ, even good things can become idols. For more information, check out the Happiness Leader Kit. 

In this teaser from session 3 of the DVD accompanying the study for Happiness: God's Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy, Randy Alcorn discusses the neglected doctrine of God's happiness. For more information, check out the Happiness Leader Kit. 

In this teaser from session 2 of the DVD accompanying the study for Happiness: God's Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy, Randy Alcorn explores how the human desire for happiness is part of our God-given nature. For more information, check out the Happiness Leader Kit. 

In this teaser from session 1 of the DVD accompanying the study for Happiness: God's Invitation to Delight, Celebration, and Joy, Randy Alcorn addresses the common, but false, distinction often made between happiness and joy. For more information, check out the Happiness Leader Kit. 

Like many others, I deeply loved John Stott, his books and his contribution to the church of Christ. I really appreciated what he had to say about unborn children.

Over the years, I’ve found that it’s a common misconception even among Christians that the present Heaven, where Christians go when we die, is the same place we will live forever. 

Question from an eleven-year-old reader: Do you have any suggestions about how many words I should write in a day? I generally get 300 to 900 words on a good day.

Hope you enjoy this recap of our ministry’s past year, and our plans for the coming one. Happy New Year! 

I think joy in eternity will be the same sort of thing we know as joy and happiness and delight right now. But it will be purified and absolute in the sense that, as Paul says, right now we are “sorrowful yet always rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:10).