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Limping Heavenward is the debut title by biblical counselor Karrie Hahn. This book helps readers navigate comprehensive and chronic suffering through a gentle biblical lens. Karrie begins the book by sharing her own deeply painful story of suffering. It encourages me that she walked through such a dark valley and still loves Jesus and His bride.
One of my favorite aspects of Limping Heavenward is that it gives readers a robust theology of suffering. Having once believed that all suffering in my life was indicative of hidden sin, I was grateful for the way Karrie explained spiritual warfare and suffering as the reality of life in a broken world. She shared early on that the book’s focus is not on identifying sin in a sufferer, but learning how to love and care for them. She also includes five unhelpful ways Christians often approach suffering and provides biblical contrasts that magnify Christ’s care for His children.
Karrie offers compassionate counsel throughout the book, and her use of Scripture is wise. Her vulnerability in sharing her story makes her a trustworthy voice on Christian suffering. She made many helpful distinctions throughout the book on how to rightly handle Scripture when applying it to sufferers. In the book, she makes a helpful contrast between Job’s friends, who were deemed miserable comforters, and who Christ calls us to be as we provide comfort and care.
Understanding this distinction is desperately needed in the church. I’m grateful that this book does an excellent job of laying the foundation for how we should comfort others with the comfort we’ve received in Christ (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). If you’ve walked or are walking through a season of suffering and/or want to know how you can biblically care for those who are, you need a copy of this Limping Heavenward. It’s a book I hope all Christians will read so we can grow in grace in learning to care for one another well.
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