Defiant Delight: Habits for Recovering Rest, Contentment, and Gratitude in Our Cynical Age

By Thomas West

God created you to live with a joy this restless world cannot take away.

You were made for more than endless hustle, doomscrolling, and outrage. Yet in our current age, delight can feel na ve, rest must be earned by grinding, and self-protecting yourself with irony is often safer than vulnerability.

It doesn't need to stay this way. In Defiant Delight, pastor and theologian Thomas West offers a gospel-rooted vision for recovering the gladness God intends for you. Through biblical insight, thoughtful cultural reflection, and practical application points, this 40-day journey will help you

identify the habits and cultural forces draining your joyreorder worn-out routines around the life-giving rhythms of gracelearn and practice the GRACE habits to cultivate contentment, gratitude, and restresist cynicism without ignoring the pain and brokenness of the world

Joy, contentment, and gratitude aren't sentimental escapes, but courageous forms of resistance. Both intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring, Defiant Delight will equip you to receive joy as a gift, practice it as an act of trust, and live with a delight grounded in the unchanging goodness of God.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736994874
• ISBN13: 9780736994873
• Release Date: August 2027
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"