Limping Heavenward
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this life, some suffering does not pass. We carry it with us. How can Christians press on in the race of faith when all we can do is limp? Today, Karrie Hahn joins Nathan W. Bingham to share biblical hope for sufferers from her new book, Limping Heavenward.
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Meet Today's Speakers:
Karrie Hahn is associate editor for Ligonier Ministries and Tabletalk magazine, and a certified biblical counselor.
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | We don't connect to God only in our joy or in our Thanksgiving. We also connect to Him in our mourning and our grief. And so if you think about it, a biblical lament is really a necessary component of life in a fallen world. Anything else would be inauthentic or even emotionally immature. |
| 0:25.6 | As Christians, how can we endure a suffering that upends every aspect of life, perhaps permanently? |
| 0:34.6 | The impact and the hurt that comes from comprehensive and chronic suffering |
| 0:39.9 | is only compounded if our theology of suffering isn't rightly drawn from the Scriptures. |
| 0:46.3 | So stay with us for a special conversation on this difficult yet immensely practical topic. |
| 0:52.7 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and this is the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:58.0 | In a moment, I'll be joined by Carrie Hahn, an associate editor here at Ligeneer Ministries, |
| 1:04.0 | a certified biblical counselor and the author of the new book, Limping Heavenwood, |
| 1:10.0 | Living by Faith in Comprehensive and Chronic Suffering. |
| 1:14.9 | You'll learn more about that book today, |
| 1:17.4 | but if you'd like a copy or know someone who might be helped by it, |
| 1:21.0 | you can request one when you donate before midnight tonight at Renewing Your Mind.org, |
| 1:27.1 | or when you call us at 800-435-4343. |
| 1:32.8 | Well, calling in from a home in Texas is Carrie Hahn. |
| 1:36.6 | Carrie, welcome to renewing your mind. |
| 1:38.8 | Thanks so much, Nathan. |
| 1:40.2 | Well, for our listeners, could you briefly share your story? |
| 1:43.6 | And before you do, I'll just say, |
| 1:45.4 | when I picked up a copy of your book, one of the things that struck me so much was the subtitle, |
| 1:52.2 | because you reference comprehensive and chronic suffering. So as you share your story, |
| 1:58.6 | could you also explain what you mean by comprehensive and chronic suffering? |
| 2:03.5 | Yeah, so I use the term comprehensive suffering to describe suffering that's unique in terms of its totality. |
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