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Drawing From the Infinite Well of Joy
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Eunice McGarrahan
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Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 1 Peter 5:10, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Revelation 2:10
In Jonathan Kozol’s book, Amazing Grace , he tells of the struggles and sufferings of people in a community in the Bronx, New York. He is amazed at the courage and resilience he found there. He then ...
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Emotions are Divine: Why Pastors Need Biblical Permission to Feel
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David Lamb
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John 11:35, Psalm 5:5, Psalm 6:1, Psalm 78:58, Psalm 78:40, Psalm 18:19, Psalm 25:6, Psalm 5:7, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 22:23, Isaiah 15:5, Luke 15:null, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 42:24, 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Samuel 1:11-12, 2 Kings 8:11-12, 2 Kings 22:18-20, Mark 14:72, John 20:11, Acts 20:37, Revelation 5:4
When the Professor Weeps: A Personal Story About ten years ago, I was teaching a course on the psalms for my seminary students in the midst of a personal health crisis. It wasn’t in my notes, but I ...
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What Suffering Does
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David Brooks
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- Happiness
People shoot for happiness, but they often feel empty, alone, and without meaning…People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering…Happiness wants you to think about maximizing your benefi...
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Rowan Williams
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1 Peter 3:13-22, 1 Peter 1:6-8, 2 Corinthians 6:10, John 16:20-22, Habakkuk 3:17-18
If I could just come down on that telling phrase – God wants us to be happy… but God doesn’t want us to be happy. God wants joy for us. But joy is something rather different from happiness. Joy is s...
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David Brooks
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People shoot for happiness, but they often feel empty, alone, and without meaning…People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering…Happiness wants you to think about maximizing your benefi...
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Creation at Play
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Phillip Yancey
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Genesis 1:31, Exodus 31:1-5, Job 38:4-7, John 1:1-3 , Colossians 1:16-17, Psalm 8:3-4
Creation as it felt to God — since then every artist has felt an echo, a sympathetic vibration: a craftsman who squints at his finished product and reckons, “Very good”; a performer who cannot suppres...
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Samuel Johnson
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- Pleasure
- Happiness
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Mark Oerter
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- Happiness
- Pleasure
We aim for happiness but we settle for pleasure…which is only momentary.
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Søren Kierkegaard
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- Pleasure
- Happiness
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard
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It’s hard to tell what brings happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Healing Wounds Never Spoken Can Lead to Spiritual Breakthroughs
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James Bryan Smith
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Genesis 16:7-13, Isaiah 49:15-16 , Jeremiah 1:5, John 9:1-3 , Romans 8:15-16, Psalm 27:10
Dawn grew up in a family in which she felt she had a fairly happy childhood. But in her adult years she struggled greatly with emotional, psychological, and physical maladies. She never felt a sense o...
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Josh Billings
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- Pleasure
- Happiness
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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C. S. Lewis
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"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered…What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then-that is the real meeting. The other is only...
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Joy in Persecution
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Bradley Long
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Matthew 5:44, Matthew 5:10-12, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Romans 8:35-37, James 1:2-4, Luke 6:22-23
The first thing the group of American church leaders noticed about the Central Asian pastor they were meeting was his smile. It was huge. It was so big that anyone who looked at it had to smile too!...
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Dr. Seuss
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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Brian King
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- Happiness
Let me be clear, nobody is happy all the time. In fact, to be happy all the time is indicative of a disorder.
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William Barclay
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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C. S. Lewis
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- Wonder
- Happiness
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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C. S. Lewis
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The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we ha...
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W. H. Auden
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- Happiness
- Joy
In times of joy, we all wish we had a tail we could wag.
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Timothy Keller
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- Happiness
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
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Light for Those in Darkness
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Steve Garnaas Holmes
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Luke 1:78-79
By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. RESPO...
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C. S. Lewis
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Morality or duty . . . never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
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Christopher Lasch
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Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:39-42, Colossians 3:1-2, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:19-21
People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic securit...
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Randy Alcorn
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- Happiness
Until Christ completely cures us and this world, our happiness will be punctuated by times of great sorrow. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be predominantly happy in Christ. Being happy as the norm rat...
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Jared C. Wilson
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God doesn’t “just” want you to be happy; he wants you to be holy as he is holy and to find true, lasting joy in him.
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We pray to You our Lord, our Savior,
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Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
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Hebrews 4:16, Romans 5:8, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 1:7, Psalm 103:12
We pray to You our Lord, our Savior, our Merciful God, that all our sins may be forgiven. Our sins are like a straight jacket, binding us, and keeping us from relationship with You. Although we know w...
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God's Joy Moves From Unmarked Box to Unmarked Box
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Anne Lamott
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Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 6:3, John 1:9-10, Colossians 1:16-17
"God's joy," said by the Persian mystic Rumi, "moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rain water down into flower bed. As roses up from ground. Now it looks ...
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Confess Sins, Seek Gods Forgiveness
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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois
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Romans 8:37, 39, Exodus 14:13-14, 1 Samuel 17:37, Colossians 2:15, Psalm 23:4
Pastor: Let us then confess our sins to God our Father. People: Merciful God, we confess that too often we have failed to put on the armor You provide. We try to protect ourselves with th...
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois
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Psalm 66:1-5, 8, 16, Exodus 15:1-3, 1 Chronicles 16:23-25, Isaiah 12:4-6, Luke 19:37-40, Revelation 5:11-13
Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. People: Amen. Pastor: Shout for joy to God, all the earth! People: Sing the glory of his name; make...