Steve DeWitt - Enjoying God in Everything: A Guide to Maximizing Lifes Pleasures

DeWitt focuses on beauty and how we can enjoy God in everything. Yes, everything. He wants Christians to enjoy beauty and joy and wonder and to allow each of these things to lead us to the source of all that is good, true, and beautiful. I am glad to commend it to you.

TIM CHALLIES

Blogger at Challies.com

To fulfill our primary purposeenjoying and glorifying God foreverwe need the eyes to see the beauty of God, the beauty of what He has made, and the beauty of everything He is redeeming in Jesus Christ. Because of his exceptional capacity to perceive divine beauty, Steve DeWitts latest book will help us all to experience more of lifes deepest, purest pleasures and then give God the praise.

PHILIP RYKEN

President, Wheaton College

This book was a delightful read; it is the only book I have ever read that describes as best we can the beauty of God. By the time I was finished reading it, I found myself worshiping God and seeing Him in places I had never seen Him before. Give yourself a break from the noise around you; read this book and contemplate our great God!

ERWIN W. LUTZER

Pastor Emeritus, The Moody Church, Chicago

Steve DeWitts new book, Enjoying God in Everything, is an invitation to explore the beauty of God expressed through creation and Christ in a way that leads us to greater wonder and worship. Like a refreshing drink on a hot day, this book reminds us to sit and savor all the loveliness of God as we gaze upon His goodness.

MELISSA KRUGER

Author and director of Womens Initiatives for The Gospel Coalition

Why are you naturally drawn to beauty? What if it were possible to get even more joy and delight from your experiences of beauty? How might you experience this joy and delight all the time, in even the most ordinary parts of your life and our world? DeWitt addresses these important questions in this accessible and eminently quotable book. Indeed, what you have in your hands is a thoughtful and practical roadmap to a richer engagement with beauty by way of seeing more clearly the God who is the source of all beauty.

VERMON PIERRE

Lead Pastor, Roosevelt Community Church

Enjoying God in Everything will point you to what you really wantbeyond the beauties and wonders of this world to the beauty of God Himself, the One we long for and love. Steve DeWitt places our cravings for beauty and joy within the biblical story and shows us what a life of joy in Gods goodness looks like.

TREVIN WAX

Vice President of Research and Resource Development at the North American Mission Board; visiting professor at Wheaton College; author of The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Rethink Your Self, and This Is Our Time

Trying to grasp the meaning of Gods beauty is a heady exercise, but Steve DeWitt has the rare ability to explain and illustrate complex concepts in a way that is precise and even whimsical. This is my favorite book on the beauty of Godreading it will make your heart soar! It is a must-read for students of Scripture and anyone who wants to go deep in their understanding of the nature of God.

RICK THOMPSON

President, Global Action

As Steve DeWitt rightly says in this simple yet profound book, the more we grow in our understanding of and delight in the source and goal of beauty, the more we will grow in our wonder and worship of God. For God is the creator, sustainer, and consummator of all things true, good, and beautiful. And I cant think of a time where this call to behold the beauty of God is more needed. Our beautiful God, who created beautiful things, especially the beautiful gospel of Jesus Christ, changes everything.

JULIUS J. KIM

President, The Gospel Coalition

2022 by
STEVE DEWITT

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This book is an abridged adaptation of Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything (Grand Rapids: Credo House Publishers, 2012).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: DeWitt, Steve (Senior Pastor), author.

Title: Enjoying God in everything : a guide to maximizing lifes pleasures / Steve DeWitt.

Description: Chicago : Moody Publishers, [2022] | This book is an abridged adaptation of Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything (Grand Rapids: Credo House Publishers, 2012). | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: We were made by God but also for Him and His beauty. Pastor Steve DeWitt invites us to taste and see how God is the beauty behind all beauty. DeWitt opens our eyes to beautys appointed end: worship! Nothing is more desirable than the beautiful one who saves: Jesus Christ--Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022016622 (print) | LCCN 2022016623 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802429278 (paperback) | ISBN 9780802473912 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: God (Christianity)--Worship and love. | Desire for God. | Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianity. | God (Christianity)--Omnipresence. | Happiness--Religious aspects--Christianity. | BISAC: RELIGION / Christian Living / Personal Growth | RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Discipleship

Classification: LCC BV4817.D48 2022 (print) | LCC BV4817 (ebook) | DDC 231.7--dc23/eng/20220519

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022016622

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022016623

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