The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World
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The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World  -     By: Lisa Harper

The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World

B&H Books / 2017 / Paperback

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Finding happiness in a world full of hardship challenges even those with the strongest faith. Author Lisa Harper has faced her share of difficulties, but still believes that happiness is a gift we can and should enjoy without shame. Writing from the perspective of a seminarian and an adoptive mom, she explores the lost sacrament of laughter, the theological underpinings of happiness, and much more. Readers of The Sacrament of Happy will be guided closer to the joyful heart of God, with their minds uplifted and funny-bones activated along the way.

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Title: The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World
By: Lisa Harper
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Vendor: B&H Books
Publication Date: 2017
Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.55 (inches)
Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 1433691930
ISBN-13: 9781433691935
Stock No: WW691935

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God is good, God does good, and oh, how He wants you to be happy.
 
In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World, Lisa Harper unveils that happiness is a gift from God that we can unashamedly enjoy. Happiness tends to be cast as a fluffy emotion without substance rather than a biblical concept, but this is not theologically accurate. Wearing the twin hats of both seminarian and belly-laughing adoptive mom, Lisa Harper dismantles the old-school idea that joy, not happiness, is the truly spiritual emotion, and asserts that Christ-followers are actually called to happiness.
 
We are called to happiness, and this happiness is not impacted by personal or global tumult. In fact, happiness is a sacrament. The general definition of sacrament is "a visible sign of inward grace." In communities of faith, it most often refers to holy communion or the Eucharist. In the broadest understanding, however, a sacrament is a gift bestowed by God, and in that case, ’happiness’ is absolutely a sacrament—a visible, sometimes even audible, sign of inward grace!
 
Lisa shares heart-wrenching difficult stories from her past, as well as some side-splitting hilarity along the way. Throughout the book, we see that happiness and sadness can coexist and ebb and flow like the tides.
 
Christine Caine, Founder of A21 & Propel Women, had this to say about Lisa’s new book: "The Sacrament of Happy—like all of Lisa’s messages and books—enriches my understanding of God and His Word—and His great love for us. As always, she unfolds biblical truth so clearly and calls me to action. Every. Single. Time."

Author Bio

Lisa Harper is an engaging, hilarious communicator as well as an authentic and substantive Bible teacher that many enjoy hearing in person, or on countless TV and radio platforms. She holds a Master of Theological Studies from Covenant Seminary, and a doctorate-in-progress at Denver Seminary. She’s been in vocational ministry for thirty years and has written twenty books and Bible study curriculums but says her greatest accomplishment by far is becoming Missy’s (her adopted daughter from Haiti) mama! They live on a hilly farmette south of Nashville, Tennessee, where they enjoy eating copious amounts of chips, queso, and guacamole. 

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