Boundless Joy invites readers into the Psalms to discover joy as a gift from God, one that endures alongside despair, hardship, and suffering.

Ethan C. Jones explores the poetry, prayers, and praises of the Psalter to excavate the mature, multifaceted joy at the heart of the life of faith. In a culture that prizes merit and worth, the psalmists reveal joy as a word of grace: not earned, but given by the God who loves us. As we hear, contemplate, and pray alongside them, God reshapes our hearts to desire divine joy, even in the midst of life's challenges.

With scholarly care and pastoral sensitivity, Jones offers a hopeful alternative to both secularized happiness and toxic positivity, and to the despair that so easily takes their place.

What readers will find in this book:

• Sustained attention to joy in the Psalms, a theme often overlooked in studies of the Psalter and the Christian life
• A biblical vision of joy that holds hardship, pain, and suffering in paradoxical tension with praise
• A fresh understanding of joy as a life-giving gift of grace, the cultivation of which requires attention, patience, and faith over the long term
• Practical encouragement to pray the prayers of Scripture and trust God's faithfulness

Great for pastors and spiritual directors as well as for college and seminary courses on spiritual formation, the Psalms, Old Testament, or Wisdom literature, Boundless Joy takes readers to the Psalms to ponder and praise the God who is himself our exceeding joy.