Contentment: Joy That Lasts

by Robert D. Jones

Are you in financial trouble or a dead-end job? Single and wishing you were married? Married and wishing it was better? Longing for more security? When life gets tough, contentment is hard to find.

Contentment isn't found, however—it's learned, argues biblical counselor Robert Jones. In this pocket-sized exposition and application of Philippians 4:11—13, Jones draws parallels between the reader's life and the various forms of hardship that the apostle Paul faced. Amid these, we too can experience what Paul inner satisfaction, peace, and confidence in God's ability to care and provide.

Quick fixes fail, but Jones shows how, through the gospel, we can learn God-centered contentment each day.

40 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2019

About the author

Robert D. Jones' great great grandparents crossed the plains in a covered wagon on the Immigrant Trail. Coming from pioneer stock, as they say, he was born in Roosevelt, Utah, a town in dispute as Indian ground. At thirteen, his father put him on a bus for a 400 mile journey to work on a cattle ranch for the summer. Working horseback in the shadow of an Indian burial ground near the Medicine Lodge River, the romance and saga of the West was etched into his mind never to leave.

Reviews

[Kaitlyn Pindak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and practical book on contentment.

[Nicole]

Restructuring the foundations of your happiness to have the True Joy

[Marney Rausch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super helpful with lots of practical ways to grow in contentment. We all struggle with contentment in some way. From small annoyances to big trials, we can have “joy that lasts.”