Is Happiness Different from Joy?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We often hear that joy and happiness are fundamentally different. But does this idea actually hold up to the way the Bible presents the concepts of happiness and joy to us?

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0:00.0	This week, Randy Alcorn joins us on the telephone.
0:08.3	Randy, thank you for setting aside some time to sit in on the Aspastor John podcast for
0:13.1	a few days.
0:14.1	Well, it's a pleasure, Tommy, great to be with you.
0:17.5	Randy is a friend of ours and a pretty well-known author to boot, and his new book is titled
0:22.2	Happiness.
0:23.2	It is a book that is encyclopedic.
0:26.2	I love it.
0:27.2	It was kind of books, and spoiler alert, his new book Happiness will be my selection
0:32.5	for the book of the year 2015 for whatever that's worth.
0:36.2	It's worth a lot to me.
0:38.1	Well, thank you, Randy.
0:39.7	It was a very easy choice for me, and it's just about everything you ever wanted to know
0:44.5	about a Christian understanding of happiness as told by scripture and a long line of preachers
0:50.1	and theologians throughout church history.
0:52.2	It's really wonderful.
0:53.2	I'm grateful for it.
0:54.2	Oh, thank you.
0:55.2	Oh, certainly, Randy.
0:57.2	As you know, there's a long-standing division in Protestant theology that goes something
1:02.3	like this.
1:03.9	Happiness is a bubbly and superficial and circumstantial feeling that comes and goes.
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