Josh Hunt's Blog

You’ve probably heard the old saying, “Don’t believe everything you think.” That might be some of the best mental health advice ever given. Unhappy people tend to let their thoughts run wild. They rehearse hurts, replay regrets, and catastrophize about the future. Happy people do something different — they think about what they think about. […]

Let’s be honest. The world isn’t rejecting Jesus because they’ve read the Gospels and found Him lacking. They’re rejecting Jesus because they’ve seen the church and found it irrelevant. In a 2023 Barna study, 42% of non-Christians said that the hypocrisy of Christians was their number one reason for disinterest in Christianity. Another 37% cited […]

Think on These Things: Train Your Mind to Treasure What’s True (Based on Numbers 13:26–14:10) Imagine standing on the edge of your promised land, just like the Israelites in Numbers 13. You’ve seen God part the sea, send down manna, defeat armies, guide you by cloud and fire. Now you’re just one step away…But the […]

It’s easier to act your way into feeling than to feel your way into acting. That’s true in every area of life — including what you put on your plate. We tend to think we know what will make us happy when it comes to food. Ice cream after a hard day. A chocolate bar […]

How you see the world has more to do with your happiness than almost anything else. You can’t always control what happens to you—but you can control how you see what happens. And that one choice changes everything. Jesus put it this way: “Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are […]

What Keeps Us from Being Loving? If love is so powerful, why don’t we love more? 1. Fear We’re afraid we’ll get hurt, taken advantage of, or rejected. So we withhold love to protect ourselves. But Scripture says “perfect love casts out fear.” (1 John 4:18) 2. Pride Pride whispers, “They don’t deserve your love.” […]

The goal of the Christian faith is not to get you to drink less beer, cuss less, or attend church more often. The goal is to make you into the kind of person who experiences life—automatically and effortlessly—as Heaven most of the time. The Bible calls this the fruit of the Spirit. Paul lists them […]

If you want to be happy, do what happy people do. That’s the heartbeat of this whole book. And one of the most consistent habits of happy people is this: they live connected lives. They spend time with others, they show up for people, and they stay engaged even when they don’t feel like it. […]