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the life that is truly life.
Are you ready to ask God if he wants
you to downsize your house, career,
hobbies, or lifestyle in order to upsize to
the good life—to live in greater service
and Christ-centered contentment?

6. Ibid.
14. Mark and Jennifer Higinbotham, personal
testimony, October 16, 2017.
Adapted from Giving is the Good Life: The Unexpected
Path to Purpose and Joy by Randy Alcorn. Copyright
© 2019. Used by permission of Tyndale House
Publishers, a Division of Tyndale House Ministries.
All rights reserved.
1. William F. High with Ashley B. McCauley,
The Generosity Bet: Secrets of Risk, Reward,
and Real Joy (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny
Image, 2014), 35–36.
2. “The Decision That Led to 9 Million
Downloads,” Life.Church Open Network Blog,
October 7, 2016, https://openblog.life.
church/the-decision-that-led-to-9-million-
downloads/.
3. “The Bible App,” YouVersion, accessed
January 7, 2018, https://www.youversion.
com/the-bible-app/.
4. High with McCauley, The Generosity Bet,
37.
5. Tori DeAngelis, “Consumerism and Its
Discontents,” Monitor on Psychology 35, no.
6 (June 2004): 52, https://www.apa.org/
monitor/jun04/discontents.
Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal
Perspective Ministries and a New York Times
bestselling author of over fifty books, including
Heaven (over one million copies sold), The Treasure
Principle (over two million copies sold), If God Is
Good, Happiness, and the award-winning novel
Safely Home. Over ten million copies of his books
have been sold, and his titles have been translated
into more than seventy languages. Alcorn resides
in Gresham, Oregon, with his wife, Nanci, and their
happy golden retriever, Maggie. They have two
married daughters and five grandsons.
Author photo taken by Angela Hunt, copyright © 2015. All rights reserved.
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