• On Christian Joy

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Psalms 16:11

  Tags:  Joy, Path

ON CHRISTIAN JOY

Billy Sunday said, "To see some people today you would think that the essential of Christianity is to have a face so long you could eat oatmeal out of the end of a gas pipe."

William Barclay said that "A gloomy Christian is a contradiction in terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces."

C.S. Lewis wrote, "It is not so much the joy of the Lord we are seeking as the Lord of joy Himself."

(From a sermon by Dave Kinney, "The Presence of Joy" 1/24/2009)