Enduring with Hope: A Caregiver's Guide to Hard Questions About Disability, Sickness, and Disease

By Jared Mulvihill

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Enduring with Hope: A Caregiver's Guide to Hard Questions About Disability, Sickness, and Disease

By Jared Mulvihill

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Christ-Centered Hope for the Most Challenging Circumstances and Questions Caregivers Face

Caregiving is a high and holy calling. As an extension of God’s own care and love, caring for another is a profound privilege yet often filled with sorrow and weariness. A caregiver himself, Jared turned to God’s word for clarity and answers regarding his son’s medical complexities and disabilities. What he found was biblical hope centered in the person and work of Jesus Christ: God is sovereign over disability and illness, cares tenderly for his children, and promises full and forever healing.

In this caregiver’s guide, Dr. Jared Mulvihill addresses difficult questions regarding sickness and disability, God’s nature and purposes, and Christ’s purchased healing in this age and the age to come. Tethered to God’s word, Jared encourages the unwell and those who care for them to trust in God and his promises, rest in the care and presence of Jesus, and persevere with hope.

  • Written for Caregivers: Jared uses his personal experiences as a caregiver to raise pressing questions, relate to his readers, and help caregivers trust in the sovereign, wise, and loving God even in the darkest valleys
  • Offers Biblical Truth: Unlike many books on disability or caregiving, this book declares biblical and theological truths in response to challenging questions about disability, sickness, disease, and healing
  • Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada: CEO of Joni and Friends, a global ministry that serves the practical and spiritual needs of people with disabilities

Author:

Jared Mulvihill

Jared Mulvihill holds a PhD in systematic theology and has devoted his life to studying, understanding, and proclaiming the truths of God’s word. He also serves as a researcher and writer with Training Leaders International. He is married to his best friend, and God has blessed them with four children, including their oldest, who has complex medical needs and severe disabilities. Jared shares about his family’s journey and creates resources to help others treasure Jesus at MulvihillLiving.com.

Product Details

Format: Paperback
Page Count: 256
Size: 5.5 in x 8.5 in
Weight: 7.72 ounces
ISBN-13: 979-8-8749-1086-0
ISBN-UPC: 9798874910860
Published: February 02, 2027

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Strengthened to Endure
Chapter 2: Is It Unloving to Admit That Something Is Wrong?
Chapter 3: Is God Really in Control?
Chapter 4: Why Did This Happen?
Chapter 5: How Should We Define Sickness, Disease, and Disability?
Chapter 6: What Does It Mean to Be Well?
Chapter 7: Will God Ever Fully Heal My Loved One––Old Testament Promise
Chapter 8: Will God Ever Fully Heal My Loved One––New Testament Fulfillment
Chapter 9: Why Doesn’t God Heal My Loved One Right Now––Promises Made
Chapter 10: Why Doesn’t God Heal My Loved One Right Now––Promises Kept
Chapter 11: Does God Care About My Loved One Who Is Suffering?
Chapter 12: How Will I Keep Going as a Caregiver?
Chapter 13: Is the Bible Degrading to Those Who Are Unwell?
Chapter 14: Why Does God Ordain So Much Suffering for His People? 
Chapter 15: Is Caregiving Worth It?
Chapter 16: Is My Loved One Under a Curse?
Chapter 17: What Will My Loved One’s Resurrection Body Be Like?
Chapter 18: Will Final Healing Change My Loved One’s Identity?
Chapter 19: Will Resurrection Bodies Have Scars Like Jesus?
Chapter 20: Why Does Jesus Heal His People?
Chapter 21: All The Way My Shepherd Leads Me

Endorsements

“As one in my fifth decade of caregiving for a profoundly disabled daughter, this book has been like cool, fresh water to a parched soul. Jared Mulvihill carefully weaves eloquent truth with authoritative Scripture to create a tapestry displaying God’s love, care, providence, and glory—all to encourage the tired and often broken hearts of caregivers. Jared moves carefully, logically, and theologically through questions that we caregivers often cannot articulate or may even fear to ask. Like one holding up a jewel, he holds up suffering, disease, and disability, turning them to help us see truth as we observe every facet, every side, in light of the gospel of hope.”
Michael S. Beates, Chaplain and Bible Teacher, The Geneva School; author, Disability and the Gospel

“On my husband’s desk sits a framed photograph of him lifting me in his arms on the day we got engaged. We had no idea that a nerve disorder would soon rob his arms of strength and that the Lord would use me (and many others) to be his arms for twenty-plus years now. It’s overwhelming to think of how many things caregivers need to know in order to serve well. The truth explained in Enduring with Hope is the bedrock for all those things. Through this book, you’ll get to know the God who daily carries us as we serve the people we love.”
Gloria Furman, author, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full and Labor with Hope: Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood  

“It is God-like to care and to give care and to keep giving care—and all the more, to do so with joy. God subjected our world and groaning bodies to futility in great hope, not as the story’s end but as an early chapter. The God of hope promises that bodies liberated from the curse are coming, and he gives us a taste of that hope even now through the many who serve as caregivers and in the ways he cares for them. Jared Mulvihill and his wife, Amy, have walked the long, hard path with joy and have known God’s special care. This book indeed helps us remember that Jesus is with us in our caregiving.”
David Mathis, Executive Editor, desiringGod.org; Pastor, Cities Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Adjunct Professor, Bethlehem College and Seminary; author, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus Through the Spiritual Disciplines

Enduring with Hope is much more than a book for caregivers. It is for anyone who wants to understand disability from a biblical perspective. I have never read a more thorough, Scripture-saturated, and compelling explanation of disability, illness, and healing. Jared Mulvihill grounds every page in God’s word, offering weary caregivers lasting hope while helping all of us see God’s good purposes in suffering and the assurance of complete healing in Christ.”
Vaneetha Rendall Risner, author, Watching for the Morning

“The author of this book is acquainted with grief, suffering, and caregiving. Yet he also knows the biblical truths by which our all-sovereign and wise God supplies in Christ ‘all endurance and patience with joy’ (Col. 1:11), even when the ‘days of darkness’ are ‘many’ (Eccl. 11:8). Soon the Lord will wipe away every tear and heal fully and forever every soul he claims as his own. Let the truths of this book save you from doubt and disbelief. Let them empower you to keep loving and serving those with disability, sickness, or disease, even as you hope for the restoration and renewal that is certain. Come, Lord Jesus!”
Jason S. DeRouchie, Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Jared Mulvihill doesn’t shy away from the hard questions and painful realities that come with caregiving, but he offers hope and encouragement saturated in the truths of Scripture. Enduring with Hope will strengthen your weary heart, bolster your faith, and give you an eternal vision for the difficult road you’ve been called to walk.”
Sarah Walton, coauthor, Jesus Will Meet You There and Hope When it Hurts

Enduring with Hope is a treasure. In this book, Jared Mulvihill offers caregivers the clearest and most comprehensive theological exposition of illness and disability that I’ve encountered in a single resource. Best of all, he writes not just as an academic but also as a father to a son with special needs. Mulvihill intimately knows the vital importance of biblical truth when grief and exhaustion overwhelm, and his heart for sharing the peace of Christ weaves throughout the book. I encourage every caregiver to read Enduring with Hope with a pen in hand and then to keep it nearby for quick reference to biblical truth in the dead of night, when only God’s life-giving word can carry us to the morning.”
Kathryn Butler, MD, author, Between Life and Death: A Gospel-Centered Guide to End-of-Life Medical Care