A Different Kind of Happiness

Discovering the Joy That Comes from Sacrificial Love

Dr. Larry Crabb

• Publisher: Baker Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781493401505
• Year: 2016

How to Love When You Don't Feel Like Loving

Everywhere 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Endorsements
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Three Passages to Ponder As You Now Explore the Message of This Book
• Part 1: The Good News That Sounds: Bad
• Part 2: The Good News That Only Disciples Know Is: Good
• Part 3: A Beautiful Story Is Unfolding, Even in the Darkest: Night
• Afterword
• One Final Question
• Notes
• About the Author
• Back Ads
• Back Cover