August 30, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS – What if the common moments of daily living bore the fingerprints of God? What if you could find deep, sustained joy in your most ordinary, uneventful days?

Like the relentless pounding of storm driven surf, the complexities and frustrations, the rituals and routines of everyday existence can wear away joy and empty life of its wonder and gladness. Christians are not immune to joyless living.

Joe Campeau, author of Ordinary Joy: Finding Fresh Promise in Routine Moments, states that to grasp a lasting joy we must know how to consistently discover God in ordinary ways. According to Campeau, the key lies, not in breaking out of the daily grind, but in learning to recognize a joy that is already at hand-right in the middle of all the stressed-out, maddening events of daily life.

In Ordinary Joy: Finding Fresh Promise in Routine Moments, the author weaves together compelling personal stories with an examination of background characters from the Gospels. This book, written in an easy conversational style, nourishes the reader's faith in the place where it matters most – the familiarity of their daily environment.

Joe Campeau is senior pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, Santa Clarita, CA, one of the largest and fastest-growing congregations in Southern California. He has been ministering in congregations for twenty years and served churches in Montana, Washington, and Massachusetts prior to moving to California.

"Christians on the go will find these chapters to be ‘soul food' for their busy lives." –Bishop Dean W. Nelson, Southern California Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Format: Paperback, 160 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches; Item No: 0806651458; Publisher: Augsburg Books; Price: $12.99.

To order Ordinary Joy call Augsburg Books at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at http://www.augsburgbooks.com/.

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