A Comprehensive Study of Happiness for the Everyday Believer.
Happiness is a constant pursuit. Our bookshelves can testify. They overflow with self-help resources from a variety of perspectives, each insisting it holds the secret to this deeply human desire. Secular options offer psychological insights but fail to recognize that true satisfaction is only found in Christ, while Christian resources may offer pastoral theology but can lack practical, science-backed guidance for the everyday believer.
Andrew Wilson uniquely weaves biblical, theological, philosophical, psychological, and sociological methods to answer 6 major questions about human flourishing in our broken world. Drawing on the greatest thinkers across Scripture and science, readers get a guide that is theologically clear, intellectually robust, and practically helpful. It dismantles myths common in our culture and our churches and explores the deepest desires of both our hearts and our happy God—for us to find joy in him!
Preface
Chapter 1: Pleasures Forever: Why Enjoyment Is Possible
Chapter 2: Seven Flavors of Happiness: What Joy Is
Chapter 3: Holistic Rejoicing: Who We Are
Chapter 4: Enjoyment and Time: When We Delight
Chapter 5: Happy Places: Where Joy Lives
Chapter 6: Road to Joy: How We Rejoice
Acknowledgments
| Contributors | Andrew Wilson |
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| ISBN | 9781433599965 |
| Format | Hardback |
| First published | August 2026 |
| Dimensions | 133mm x 203mm x 18mm |
| Weight | 0.28 kg |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 176 |
| Publisher | Crossway |
There’s so much to love about this book! It sparkles with clarity, biblical depth, and insight born not only from study but from life experience. With sharp prose and memorable analogies, Andrew Wilson helps us see more clearly what our restless hearts are really searching for—and where true happiness is found.
In an age that treats happiness as both a right and a reward, Christians can uncritically absorb the world’s assumptions about what it means to be happy. Andrew Wilson’s Happiness is, therefore, an important book for our time. What he offers is not therapeutic uplift but a robust, Scripture-saturated theology of the what, where, and how of happiness. Grounding his discussion in the character and purposes of God—the happiest being in existence—Wilson helps us see that true happiness is neither selfish nor shallow but deeply Christ-shaped. This book will reshape how you think about joy, discipleship, and the God who wants you to be happy.
In an age of anxiety and amidst an epidemic of loneliness, Andrew Wilson invites us to share God’s happiness. This elegant and easy-to-read book helps us grasp that God is most happy with us when we find happiness in him.
