The Joy Project: A True Story of Inescapable Happiness by Tony Reinke

Author:Tony Reinke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Desiring God
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

1 David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (New York: Little, Brown, 1996), 388–89.

2 Ibid.

3 If you struggle with depression you’re not alone. Along with reaching out to your doctor and your pastor, here are three excellent books to consider, all written by Calvinists who are familiar with depression: Ed Welch, Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness (New Growth, 2011); John Piper, When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God— and Joy (Crossway, 2007); and David Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too (Reformation Heritage, 2010).

4 Ibid., 692–98.

5 Ibid., 107.

6 David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace (New York: Broadway: 2010), 81.

7 Wallace, Infinite Jest, 319–20.

8 David Foster Wallace, commencement address at Kenyon College, May 21, 2005.

9 Tim Keller, sermon, “Jesus, Our Priest” (November 12, 1995).

10 Tim Keller, Judges for You, God’s Word for You (Epsom, Surrey, UK: Good Book Company; 2013), 99.

11 Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin (Edinburgh, 1864), 8:573–75.

12 John Flavel, The Whole Works of the Reverend John Flavel (London: W. Baynes & Son, 1820), 4:92–93.

13 Jonathan Edwards beautifully explains this point: “There is a twofold weanedness from the world. One is a having the heart beat off or forced off from the world by affliction, and especially by spiritual distresses and disquietudes of conscience that the world can’t quiet; this may be in men, while natural men. The other is a having the heart drawn off by being shown something better, whereby the heart is really turned from it. So in like manner, there is a twofold bringing a man off from his own righteousness: one is a being beat or forced off by convictions of conscience, the other is a being drawn off by the sight of something better, whereby the heart is turned from that way of salvation by our own righteousness. The argument from it being God’s manner first to bring persons into extremity, and to take away all false comfort and false dependence, is as forcible for one as the other. . . . In these things, viz. in renouncing the world to trust in Christ only as the means and fountain of our happiness, and in renouncing our own righteousness to trust alone in his righteousness, lies the grand secret of being thorough Christians.” The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. 833–1152), ed. Harry S. Stout, Amy Plantinga Pauw, and Perry Miller, vol. 20, The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), 90–91.

14 See Psalms 33:12; 47:1–4; 105:43; 106:4–5; 132:13–16.

15 Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections, ed. John E. Smith and Harry S. Stout, Revised edition, vol. 2, The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 248–249.

16 Samuel Rutherford, Fourteen Communion Sermons (Glasgow: 1877), 254.

17 Jackie Hill-Perry, “The Argument,” The Art of Joy (2014).

18 Thomas Boston, The Whole Works of Thomas Boston (Aberdeen: George and Robert King, 1848) 2:85.

19 John Piper, Twitter, Jan. 5, 2012.

20 Augustine, Confessions, trans. Maria Boulding (New York: Vintage, 1997), 170.

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