Happiness Defined Differently.

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How to Love...

…When You Don’t Feel Like Loving

Everywhere we look, we see evidence that love is in short supply. Terrorists and political corruption, school shootings and troubled marriages, impatient online sniping and character assassination–all point to the fact that we do not know how to love one another as Jesus commanded and modeled. We put our own interests and happiness first, despite the fact that the greatest happiness comes through sacrificial love.

In this book, Dr. Larry Crabb shows readers how to understand the deep and perfect love we are shown by our Creator and Redeemer, and how to pour that love into other people. This love is about more than being nice and serving others. It’s about relating to others in such a way that they feel heard, seen, and valued. This love sacrifices and suffers and keeps loving, even when doing so is costly. This kind of love, says Crabb, is the kind worth fighting for in all of our relationships, and A Different Kind of Happiness shows how to make it a reality.

“Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God’s presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit’s power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God’s nature by how they relate.”

-Dr. Larry Crabb ,A Different Kind of Happiness

Catch up on the latest from Larger Story.

Enjoy a few hand picked videos from this eventful year.

Dr. Larry Crabb’s Memorial Service in Charlotte, NC

Ministry transition update from Larry & the Larger Story Team just before he passed.

Hear how Larry’s wife, Rachael, and their two sons are doing a few months after his passing.

FEATURED FROM THE BLOG

Listening In for God’s Larger Story

Larry Crabb’s cherished gifts were words, in the form of poems, letters, cards, books, and even emails. In the past few months, I ran across a stray 51st anniversary card I had written to Larry.

Rachael Crabb

What Longing Tells Us

I bought these shoes recently because I just loved them so much. They were also kinda painful to wear when I put them on the first time. I wore them to meet a boy, and I could barely walk.

Larger Story

Ten Things to Remember

1. There will be seasons, perhaps days, perhaps years, when no truth however expressed –whether through Scripture, prayer, the kindness of a friend, music or dance –will reach your soul deeply enough to offer joy or hope.

Dr. Larry Crabb