Does Joy in God Touch All of Life?

The useful part

My wife and I had just spent a year in New Zealand doing ministry with Calvary Chapel Bible Institute. As we left the Kiwis, our minds turned with wonderful memories (we visited all the filming locations for The Lord of the Rings) as well as a truckload of theological questions. Still grappling with many of these, we moved to Molokai, Hawaii, where I became a full-time pastor for the church I grew up in.

How it works

• In it, John Piper unpacks the truths that undergird Christian Hedonism, chief among them the indispensable reality that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
• You mean my irrepressible desire to be happy is not something I should try to suppress but to sate?
• The sun had risen for the first time, and everything looked different in that dawn.
• Two years later, I was still exploring the extent of that dawn's reach when I read The Things of Earth.
• In this application of Desiring God 's happy theology, Joe Rigney takes up Christian Hedonism and seeks to press it into every corner of life.

What to take from it

What does the pursuit of pleasure in God look like when it encounters my wife and my kids, my neighbo...

Details worth keeping

In this malleable state, I encountered two books that forever shaped me. You mean the pursuit of pleasure is not optional but imperative?