Crazy Happy
Nine Surprising Ways to Live the Truly Beautiful Life
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“If you want the unshakable happiness Jesus has for you, this book can show you the way.”—Tim Timberlake, lead pastor of Celebration Church, Jacksonville, Florida, and author of Abandon
Dissatisfied with your life? Yeah, most of us have been there. There’s no shame in wanting to be happy, but true satisfaction often eludes us. At best, the fleeting happiness we do find usually dribbles away in our never-ending debts, deadlines, and mindless scrolling. At worst, it’s chased away by anxiety, depression, or fallout from our own selfishness.
Here’s the truth: whether we hunt for happiness in school parties, bars, the workplace hustle, or even in church pews, we’ll wind up shortchanged. Why? Because plain and simple, the only reason we’re so often unhappy with our lives is because we don’t see our lives as beautiful.
But God wants something better for you.
In Crazy Happy, pastor Daniel Fusco unpacks fresh connections in two of the Bible’s most familiar passages—connections that can really, truly, honest-to-goodness change things. If you stick around for the ride, you’ll find the kind of God-given beauty that can change your life and make you crazy happy too—even in the midst of our sometimes-crazy world.
This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains the Points to Ponder from the book.
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Release date
February 16, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593287484
- File size: 150855 KB
- Duration: 05:14:16
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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December 21, 2020
In this vibrant work, TV and radio host Fusco (Upward, Inward, Outward) explores notions of living a good life by taking a close look at the Beatitudes and the nine attributes (“love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control”) that compose the Fruits of the Spirit. By pairing each of the Beatitudes (“blessed are the hungry” or “blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice”) with one of the nine Fruit of the Spirit attributes, Fusco offers insights on living a better life: “mourning produces joy in the kingdom of God” and “comes from lives that allow God to meet us and work through brokenness.” Fusco’s Christian devotion is evident throughout (“true beauty works itself out in our lives only as we are made one with Jesus”) as he illustrates how, even in adverse or difficult circumstances, hope can be found. Fusco acknowledges that embracing negative experiences may sound “crazy,” but assures readers that one must “unlearn the cultural doctrines we’ve inherited” to “live in the beauty of God’s kingdom.” Christian readers longing for happiness will connect with Fusco’s uplifting reflections.
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