Discovering God

Sermon Reflections from Unshakeable Joy  | Alex Hardt  |  June 22, 2025 What If You Were Grateful for the Things You Wish Didn’t Happen? That question stopped me in my tracks. It came from a deeply emotional interview between Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert. They were talking about grief—about loss, about the hard, heartbreaking things in life—and Colbert, said something almost unthinkable: “I love the thing I most wish had not happened.” He went on to talk about how his suffering shaped him, deepened him, and even strangely made him grateful. That kind of joy—the kind that grows out of pain—doesn’t make sense to the world. But it’s the kind of joy that Scripture speaks of over and over again. It’s the kind of joy that doesn’t deny hardship, but somehow shines through it. It’s what I call Unshakeable Joy. I saw this same joy come to life while watching the movie The Unbreakable Boy. The film tells the true story of Austin, a boy born with brittle bone disease and late...