How to Choose Joy When Life is Crashing in on You 

C.S. Lewis said, “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Too often, however, joy is missing from our lives. When we look to Scripture, we see examples of early Christians thriving even amid hardship and persecution. How do we recapture that deep and stubborn joy? In this excerpt from I Choose Joy, pastor and author Chip Ingram takes us to God’s Word, helping us shift away from the temporal to fix our eyes on our eternal hope. It’s a joy to welcome Chip to the farm’