A Different Kind of Happiness
- Christian Living
- Marriage, Family & Relationships
- Publisher: Baker Books (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2017
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Publisher's Description
How to Love When You Don't Feel Like LovingEverywhere we look, we see evidence that love is in short supply. Terrorists and political corruption, school shootings and troubled marriages, impatient online sniping and character assassination--all point to the fact that we do not know how to love one another as Jesus commanded and modeled. We put our own interests and happiness first, despite the fact that the greatest happiness comes through sacrificial love. In this book, Dr. Larry Crabb shows readers how to understand the deep and perfect love we are shown by our Creator and Redeemer, and how to pour that love into other people. This love is about more than being nice and serving others. It's about relating to others in such a way that they feel heard, seen, and valued. This love sacrifices and suffers and keeps loving, even when doing so is costly. This kind of love, says Crabb, is the kind worth fighting for in all of our relationships, and A Different Kind of Happiness shows how to make it a reality.
Endorsements (8)
“While reading this book I found my heart longing to love like Jesus loves. Larry writes in a way that stirs the deepest part of me, which truly does want what God wants. I wish every Christ-follower would read this book and allow God to create a vision in them for loving well. As a pastor I long to see this kind of Christlike loving lived out in and through every local church. If we did, the world would know that Jesus was sent from the Father and that we are His. Happy reading.”
“believers to which I belong. Like his favorite prophet, Jeremiah, Dr. Crabb has a message that challenges the status quo: ultimately the Bible is about relationship. His latest book is a welcome yet challenging call to a lived relational theology. He reminds us that growing in sacrificial other-centeredness is not easy but it is the way of Christ, which is a critical message for the body of Christ.”
“Larry Crabb is my favorite author, and only more so after I read this book. His rigorous honesty about God, himself, and the Christian life is so needed—and so rare! Thank you, Larry, for reaching up to a shelf much higher than I could ever reach on my own and bringing down heavenly insight that is so deep, profound, and transformative.”
“Larry Crabb has done it again! In A Different Kind of Happiness I’ve been diagnosed gently, kindly shown Jesus, and then offered a better way. This is a profound, honest, life-changing book. This old cynical preacher found hope here. You will too. Love changes everything, but it’s love that is more than a cliché. This is real love that stands up and sings the Hallelujah Chorus.”
“Every day I sit with people who are deeply disillusioned with what they’re experiencing in the Christian life. Larry has painted a picture of hope . . . that underneath our struggles and emptiness is a different kind of happiness that can be released through sacrificial love. A powerful read for those who want to love others but find the battle of life keeps getting in the way.”
“Dr. Larry Crabb has a unique mind, and this book demonstrates this from start to finish. You will not be able to put this book down. Dr. Crabb shows the way to true happiness and joy—being like Jesus and getting your joy from Him. This is a book that will make you think, and you may never be quite the same again after reading it.”
“For any Christian seriously committed to living as Jesus lived and loving as Jesus loved, this book is required reading. Functioning like a spiritual MRI, it exposes the narratives that support our flawed quest for happiness and resultant failure to love well. A diagnosis like this is not comfortable but it is required if we are to cooperate with the Spirit in the renovation of our hearts, to enjoy God as our greatest good, and to display His life in the way we relate to others.”
“It’s time perhaps to recapture a bit of John Calvin’s wisdom. He wrote that true wisdom is the product of two necessities: knowledge of God and knowledge of oneself. As usual, Dr. Crabb calls the reader to an awareness of oneself that opens the door for the truths of God to actually impact how one relates. For the honest pilgrim, it is an uncomfortable process, but as King Solomon wisely observed, the road to life most often travels through what seems like death (Prov. 14:12). We were built for happiness. The path there is mostly misidentified and counterintuitive. In this book, Larry points to the life-giving way. And he does so with a comprehensive understanding of the biblical narrative that provides the reader with categories for thinking about God’s unfolding drama.”
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