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Mini Courses
Discover a Happiness Your Circumstances Cannot Take Away
What if you didn't have to wait for life to get better before you felt happy?
In the Beatitudes, Jesus opens a path to genuine happiness amid stress, sadness, anger, and loneliness.Â
The Real Happy mini-courses will help you move past chasing fleeting moments of happiness into a happiness that lasts. Adapted from Real Happy: Jesus’ Surprising Path to Genuine Joy,  and taught by Mike Hayes and Dr. Jeffrey Garner. Adapted from Real Happy, each mini-course takes you deeper into one Beatitude through teaching created specifically for the course along interactive assignments designed to help you examine your own life—including art reflections, assessments, and journal prompts.
Each course includes a Course Buddy Experience—a personal conversation to help you process what you’ve learned and carry it into your life.
MAKE ROOM
Poor in spirit, the door to everything else.
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What did Jesus mean when he said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit”?
Most of us pursue happiness by adding more—more activity, possessions, entertainment, and achievement or experiences. But in the first Beatitude, Jesus points us in a surprisingly different direction.
In Make Room, Pastor Mike Hayes and Dr. Jeffrey Garner unpack the meaning of Matthew 5:3 and show why “Blessed are the poor in spirit” is the starting point for genuine happiness.
Through teaching and materials created specifically for this course, you’ll examine what has shaped your pursuit of happiness—and discover the surprising alternative Jesus offers.
DIVINE COMFORT
Happiness is for sad people, too!
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Can we experience genuine happiness while we are still sad?
When we’re grieving, we may believe happiness cannot return until the sadness is gone.
In Divine Comfort, Pastor Mike Hayes and Dr. Jeffrey Garner explore the meaning of the second Beatitude, “Blessed are those who mourn” in Matthew 5:4. Through a series of short videos, they reveal how Jesus’ promise of divine comfort changes the way we understand sadness and happiness.
You’ll discover how Jesus meets us in our sadness and makes genuine happiness possible—even while we mourn.
POWER of MEEKNESS
Not weakness. Strength under control.
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We’re taught that the world belongs to those willing to take what they want. Jesus says it belongs to the meek.
When anger takes hold—or ambition convinces us we must push, grasp, and fight for our share—it robs us of happiness and leaves us struggling to control the outcome.
In The Power of Meekness, Pastor Mike Hayes and Dr. Jeffrey Garner unpack the meaning of “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” in Matthew 5:5.
You’ll identify the different ways anger shows up in your life, examine the desires beneath it, and discover why meekness is neither weakness nor passivity.
Discover how trusting God frees us from the anger and grasping that rob us of happiness—and why meekness, not force, opens the way to the inheritance God has for us.
Mini Course Bundle
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Get the Complete Real Happy Mini-Course Bundle
Explore all three courses—Make Room, Divine Comfort, and The Power of Meekness—and discover how Jesus opens a path to genuine happiness amid busyness, sadness, and anger.
Your bundle includes:
- All three self-paced mini-courses
- Teaching materials that go beyond the Real Happy book
- A personal Course Buddy conversation with each course
- Lifetime access to all three courses
Get all three mini-courses for $247—a savings of $50. No promo code is needed; the discount is applied automatically at checkout.
The Course Buddy Experience
 SELF-PACED, BUT NOT ALONE. Every mini-course includes a one-on-one conversation with a trained Course Buddy—a real person who is ready to listen, encourage you, and help you make the most of what you’ve learned.
Knowing that a personal conversation awaits gives you a meaningful next step as you work through the course. After you finish, your Course Buddy will help you explore what God may be saying to you through the content, and identifying how you can carry those insights into everyday life.
Ready to begin? Choose your mini-course above, and we’ll assign your Course Buddy to accompany you through the experience. Each of our courses includes a Course Buddy Experience at no additional cost.
Real Happy Book
Are you really happy?
When almost every human choice is made with happiness in mind, why do we continue to miss out on lasting happiness? Perhaps happiness isn’t something we pursue but rather something that ensues…What if happiness is not stuff we fill up on but something we make room for? Real happiness may not be something out there at all (material) but something in here (spiritual).
In this compelling narrative, best-selling author Mike Hayes and Dr. Jeffrey Garner journey through the eight beloved Beatitudes from Jesus’ revolutionary Sermon on the Mount. Religious and non-religious readers alike will smile and feel inspired in learning that Jesus, despite popular understandings, was in fact deeply invested in human happiness. Jesus’ happiness, however, consoles sorrow, embraces emptiness, confronts injustice, and is even present in our suffering—all that we avoid in our search for happiness. Aptly reframing the Beatitudes as happy oracles, Mike and Jeffrey share personal stories and historical insights that optimize Jesus’ happy message for a 21st century audience. This book challenges our cultural conceptions of happiness and beautifully guides the reader into Jesus’ Real Happy life.
What are people saying:
“This book provides such an important breakdown of the beatitudes. As I worked my way through each one, I gained a deeper understanding of how I can apply this roadmap to happiness in my own life. I will continue to work on emptying myself to make room for the fullness of God’s desire for me.”
“Real Happy takes you on a journey that you did not know that you needed. It serves as a “how to” road map for those seeking true happiness. The teachings of Jesus as listed in the Beatitudes help you realize that true happiness is attainable and worth pursuing.”
“This book offers an unconventional take on the Beatitudes, presenting them not just as ancient sayings, but as practical, timeless principles that can guide us to true happiness and fulfillment in our modern lives.”
About the Authors
Mike Hayes, Founding Pastor of Covenant Church and renowned author, has been a significant figure in ministry since 1970. He is best known for his book, When God is First, which has sold over one million copies in eight languages. Mike has been recognized for his impactful work on  racial reconciliation, immigration, and Middle Eastern-Israeli peace agreements as a Faith Advisor for the White House. In his latest book, Real Happy: Jesus’ Surprising Path to Genuine Joy, he reflects on the universal quest to understand genuine happiness, a subject he holds close to his heart. Currently, Mike resides in Texas with his wife Kathy.  Off the page, he finds joy in spending time with family, listening to good music from Bocelli to Haggard, and restoring classic cars. Stay connected with this author at www.mikehayes.org
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Dr. Jeffrey Garner is a California native and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary graduate. For twenty years, Dr. Garner has pastored in downtown San Francisco, researching the gospel at work in culture. He lectured at Western Seminary for twelve years on Discipleship and Urban Mission. Now turning his sights to authorship, Jeffrey uses his expertise in Johannine literature and contemplative Christianity to draw seekers and learners into the Belovedness of God. While he has written over a thousand sermons, devotional guides, and curated several spiritual journeys, this co-authored book on happiness is his much-anticipated book debut.  A husband and father of two adult children, Jeffrey loves listening to jazz while cooking dinner, watching the fog spill over the Marin Headlands, hiking the Sierras, and reading Mary Oliver.  Stay connected with this debut author at www.jeffreygarner.com
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