God Wants You Happy: From Self-Help to God's Help: From Self-Help to God's Help Through Faith, Hope, and Love - Hardcover

Jonathan Morris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061913561 ISBN 13: 9780061913563

Publisher: HarperOne, 2011

Synopsis

The popular Fox News analyst challenges "new age" self-help experts and shows that there is better, time-tested counsel in the Bible. The church has stood silent over the last several years despite a growing divide between New Age-inspired self-help books and traditional Christian spirituality. Christian teachers have dismissed as heterodox, and therefore unimportant, the phenomenal literary success of Eckart Tolle (A New Earth), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success), Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), and many others like them. Now Fox News analyst Father Jonathan Morris wants to show that people do not need to abandon the church in order to get help for their lives, providing a Divine Cure that offers life-long happiness. Father Jonathan uses his reporting skills to reveal why people are seeking counsel in the self-help world, and with his pastoral skills he offers a compassionate and truthful bridge back home from the unsatisfying world of self-help to the simplicity and depth of Christian spirituality. Whereas New Age spirituality fixates on our power to determine our destiny, he invites readers to become pro-active believers, trusters, and lovers of the ultimate Higher Power that will bring great healing and joy to those who follow, as we grow into the flourishing persons God created us to be.

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Review:

Inviting, accessible and personal. . . . A reminder of an overlooked truth: faith leads to joy. --James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything

From the Back Cover:

In God Wants You Happy, Father Jonathan Morris replaces the unsatisfying, fleeting solutions we receive from the New Age self-help industry with the simplicity and depth of authentic Christian spirituality. In his work traveling the world for FOX News and in his parish work in New York City, Father Jonathan could not understand why people were choosing the vague and sometimes harmful advice of the self-help gurus and ignoring the tested and true help the Christian faith offers. He discovered that part of the problem was packaging: people thought the church dealt only in sin and guilt and not help and healing. But what if we reframed God's good news in the same terms as the self-help world?

Morris argues that self-help can only take you so far; what we need is God-help. God Wants You Happy offers a life-long spiritual program that teaches you how to open yourself up to God's loving presence in order to become everything he created you to be—joyful, flourishing men and women. In other words, God wants you to be happy.

Illuminated with biblical passages and filled with case studies and exercises, God Wants You Happy helps you to:

• Open your mind and heart to the all-loving God who wants to help and empower you
• Work through the Faith-Hope-Love Cure to rid yourself of self-destructive and self-limiting habits while forming new habits for receiving grace, forgiveness, acceptance, and love
• Tap into the natural mechanisms of self-improvement God has already put within you
• Discover your divine mission

A lifetime of happiness is at your fingertips and the Creator of the universe wants to help you achieve it.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061913561
• ISBN 13: 9780061913563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240