Delight!: Discipleship as the Adventure of Loving and Being Loved

◆ 2020 BIBA® Award Winner for best independently published book in the Christian category. ◆

You bring God joy.

And God intends the feeling to be mutual.

This book will help you lean into Joyful Delight, Thoughtful Delight, Playful Delight, Delicious Delight, and Desirable Delight in your life with God. Delight! invites you into a real, accessible, and down-to-earth way of experiencing the adventure of following Jesus.

Of course you will know struggle and failure. Of course you will know grief and shame. But you don’t have to carry the burden of getting your faith walk right; you already make Jesus jump for joy and sing his happy song. The Creator of the Universe thinks you’re something special. Even when life is confusing or difficult, the Spirit is shaping you with care and delight.

• Are you tired of religion?
  
• Are you beat down by anxiety or doubt?
  
• Do you long for something more in your life of faith?

Let go of your burden. Take a deep breath. And let’s explore what it means to follow Jesus on the adventure of your life—an adventure marked by challenge and repentance and difficulty, but marked most fundamentally by mutual delight!

The LORD will take great delight in you;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

(Zephaniah 3:17)

“These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you,
and that your joy may be full.”

(John 15:11)

From the Book

"Following Jesus isn’t supposed to weigh you down; it’s supposed to make you dance. Following Jesus isn’t supposed to limit your fun; it’s supposed to open you up to freedom you have never known before. Following Jesus isn’t a burden to carry, even when you carry your cross; to follow Jesus is certainly to know suffering and trouble and dying to self and struggling with doubt, but fundamentally—fundamentally!—following Jesus is about delight.

Jesus delights in you; and Jesus loves it when you feel the same about him. That’s what following Jesus is all about."

What People Are Saying

In Delight!, Justin Rossow widens our lens for understanding grace as he explores the delight God has in us and the delight God gives to us. The impact will ripple into every area of your spiritual walk. Delight! brings both lightness and depth to the Scriptures and to our relationships with our Great God.

HEIDI GOEHMANN, author of Altogether Beautiful: A Study of the Song of Songs

Have we lost our sense of delight? Today delight seems to be reduced to each person’s version of personal happiness. Or delight is simply missed altogether because we are too busy and anxious to notice it. In a deeply reflective and devotional way, Rossow puts delight back on the agenda of the theology of the Christian life. Taking us on a biblical journey of discovery around God’s vision of delight for us, he invites us to receive this gift, revel in it, and, yes, delight in it!

LEOPOLDO A. SANCHEZ M., author of Sculptor Spirit: Models of Sanctification from Spirit Christology 

I have spent a great deal of my life believing in my head that Jesus loved me, yet living practically as if I were always on the verge of being in big trouble. This book offers a refreshing, biblical vision of how to live a life captivated and covered by the love of God. Even more astonishing is the discovery of a God who is full of delight.

JAMIE WIECHMAN, cofounder of Breathe Life Ministries