Is it possible to be joyless and happy and on the other side of things, can we be joyful in sorrow? Today we discuss how the world sees happiness versus how Jesus describes Joy and what that means for our lives.

We highly recommend catching up with our episode sitting down with Confesor Martinez. Getting to record with him was such a gift and we think you’ll find this episode so edifying. 

The Walter Wangerin Jr. quote comes from his book Reliving the Passion: Meditations on the Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Jesus as Recorded in Mark. 

Rick reads from: 

1 Peter 1:7 and 1 James 1:2-4 as well as Romans 5:3-5

Rick and Lauren reference our past episode Conversations with Suffering Friends. 

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