Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough

by Kay Warren

Overview

In April 5, 2013, Kay Warren's life changed forever. That was the day she lost her son Matthew to suicide. Most of us will not face anything so devastating, but every single day we will face something that threatens our attempts to live with joy. Health problems, financial worries, marriage issues, loneliness, unresolved relational conflicts, anxiety about our nation or our world, stress over how our kids are turning out. In those moments, how do we choose joy over fear, apathy, or despair?

In Choose Joy, Kay shares the path to experiencing soul-satisfying joy no matter what you're going through. She helps you send your spiritual roots deep into the soil of God's love so that you can develop convictions and certainties about him that will become the source of your strength when happiness isn't enough.

"The only thing that would allow me to survive the loss of my son was what I knew and believed about God . . . and joy," says Kay. Let her lead you toward true and lasting joy in your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800738266
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Edition description:	Repackaged Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	477,167
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kay Warren cofounded Saddleback Church with her husband, Rick Warren, in Lake Forest, California, in 1980. After the death of her son, Matthew, who lived with serious mental illness for most of his life, she founded Saddleback's Hope for Mental Health Initiative as a way to support individuals and family members of loved ones with mental illness and suicidal ideation. The Initiative also trains others in the faith community how to launch or expand existing mental health ministries.

Kay is a board member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and is active in mental health/suicide prevention efforts in Orange County, California. She is the author of Sacred Privilege, Choose Joy, and Say Yes to God, and coauthor of Foundations, a popular systematic theology course used by churches worldwide. Her children are Amy and Josh, and Matthew (who is in heaven), and she has five grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Preface 11

Part 1 Joy Is My Inheritance: Embracing the Permission to Be Joyful 13

1 Seeking a Life of Joy 17

2 Showing Our True Colors 31

3 Rediscovering Jesus, the Man of Joy 41

Part 2 Joy Is a Conviction of My Mind: Discovering a New Way of Thinking 59

4 Drinking from Dry Wells 63

5 Adopting Heaven's Value System 81

6 Believing Even in Darkness 99

Part 3 Joy Is a Condition of My Heart: Cultivating a Soul-Response That Allows Joy to Deepen 113

7 Nurturing Joy in Yourself 117

8 Nurturing Joy in Others 137

Part 4 Joy Is a Choice of My Behavior: Ways to Choose Joy Daily 155

9 Getting Back to Basics 159

10 Loving and Laughing Together 175

11 Seeing Joy in All Things 191

Conclusion 207

Acknowledgments 211

Notes 213