Don Mainprize

Your Journey into Joy: Fourteen Walks into the Land of Joy Don Mainprize

In 14 short "walks" Your Journey into Joy explores the rich road ways to positive Godly living permeating the Bible. Though not a "verse by worse" study of the 1,225 references, you will dip into what I call "The River of Rejoicing." Journey does not, however, endorse the "Easy Believism" or "Easy Grace" view of Christian living. By exposing the joy spectrum of 7 key words: joy, rejoice, enjoy, gladness, happiness, delight, and blessed, we discover they wind their way through the Bible like a highway from Genesis to Revelation and lead directly to the Holy Spirit. We examine together the ultimate question: Is the life of joy the heritage of every believer? Are we to dump emotions as a broken barometer even though our Savior told us to "... love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; . . ." (Luke 10:27)? Is the highway to joy a free way or a tollway? Does free grace and salvation relieve us of our personal spiritual responsibility? If salvation has no strings attached, must we really take up His cross daily to experience joy? On this journey you will discover the source of true joy and how rejoicing can become a way of life.