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Joni is a friend of mine who has been leading people with love and courage for decades. God uses the most unlikely guides to take us up the rugged terrain in our faith. Gods plan is pretty simple. He wants us to spend forever with Him. This life is just practicing for eternity. Will we face difficulties and setbacks? You bet. In this updated book, Joni has taken us once again to the high places, and shes done so from her chair.

B OB G OFF, author of the New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody Always

Drawing from her work with persons who have disabilities, Joni Eareckson Tada has given us some of the most poignant images of heaven: a place where she will be on her feet dancing, a place where her mentally challenged friends will receive, at last, completed minds. Now, in Heaven , she gives a full treatment to one of the most important yet sadly overlooked doctrines of the Christian faith.

P HILIP Y ANCEY, author of Where Is God When It Hurts? and The Jesus I Never Knew

Although Joni Eareckson Tada is no stranger to suffering, she radiates a contagious joy that has impacted countless lives. Now, in her updated version of Heaven , Joni has shared the source of her hope by painting an irresistible picture of our eternal home.

J IM D ALY, president of Focus on the Family

For more than half a century, without the use of physical legs, Joni Eareckson Tada has scaled heights and witnessed vistas most only dream of. Her life has given us glimpses of the joy found in the presence of our Savior. She has shown us what it looks like to keep pressing on, seeing and savoring Christ by faith until we are home with Him forever. Joni has given us an exquisite depiction of what lies ahead for those who have set their sights and hearts on the Summit.

N ANCY D E M OSS W OLGEMUTH, author, teacher/host of Revive Our Hearts

When I researched in preparation to write my book Heaven years ago, I read 150 books on the topic, some of them hundreds of years old, literally every book I could find. Ive often been asked which was my favorite, and my answer is always the same: Jonis. Im delighted that this already great book has been updated and will reach a new generation of readers! I personally look forward to reading it again. Thank you, Joni, for your great heart for God and your infectious anticipation of heaven as our home.

R ANDY A LCORN

Not merely in spite of but actually because of her own suffering, Joni is able to give to us her keen vision of heavens joy.

T HE LATE E LISABETH E LLIOT, author and speaker

As long as Ive known Joni Eareckson Tada, her heart has been set on heaven. She pores over the biblical promises with an expectant heart. Her conversation, songs, and messages reflect a heavenly preoccupation. Joni has collected her thoughts on heaven in this moving book, filled with contagious expectation, rich biblical insight, and the warm glow of heaven itself. Joni, always a gifted artist, paints such a vivid picture of heaven that youll get the sense she has lived half her life there.

D R. J OHN M AC A RTHUR, pastor-teacher, Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, California

My first words to Joni when I met her in July 1999 were, Im reading your book, Heaven , because my daughter just went there. I was so grateful to know that my daughter, Hope, was in heaven, but it just felt so far away from me. Reading Heaven helped me to focus on all that Hope had gained rather than only on what I had lost. It increased my own anticipation of heaven and loosened my grip on this world. My copy is worn and underlined and treasured. This book is filled with godly wisdom and perspective for living this life in anticipation of the life to come.

N ANCY G UTHRIE, author and Bible teacher

Joni Eareckson Tada has a unique gift for stating the profoundest wisdom in the vividest and most warmhearted way, and in Heaven she outshines herself. Theologically, spiritually, and humanly, her modeling from her wheelchair of healthy hope for the Christians homeland is pure gold, as powerful as it is poignant. Dont miss it!

J. I. P ACKER, theologian and author of Knowing God

Having ministered to college students for many years, Ive experienced the generation gap firsthand. After mentioning something from my childhood, be it a favorite book or treasured toy, I get a blank stare that tells me the student has no idea what I mean. Thankfully, the lessons learned in suffering have no expiration date, and Gods truths are everlasting. It is my joy to commend this book to those who havent heard Jonis story or gleaned from the treasures she has found in dark places. My mentors introduced me to her writings, which has shaped and strengthened my love for Jesus, who is the centerpiece of heaven. Im pleased to introduce her to younger generations in the hope that God will do the same for them.

A IMEE J OSEPH , Campus Outreach San Diego and Womens Ministry director at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Encinitas

What a wise and warm and wonderful book! It will build up many peoples faith and hope and love for God and heaven.

D R . P ETER K REEFT , professor of philosophy, Boston College

There is a lot to find in this booka lot of Scripture, a number of great stories, a series of prayers, and a host of important insights. But heres what I found above all else: hope. I was struck time and again by how much Joni has invested in heavenand how much I ought to have invested in heaven. This is a book for people who are ready to take heaven seriously. I was encouraged, rebuked, and comforted.

K EVIN D E Y OUNG , senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church, Matthews, North Carolina, and assistant professor of systematic theology, Reformed Theological Seminary-Charlotte

In the season after a near-fatal stroke changed our lives forever, we received so many books offering a picture of hope for our new normal. There was none more influential than this one as it lifted our eyes toward the hope of heaven with Jonis hard-won wisdom. Its a deep well of healing for every hurting heart.

K ATHERINE AND J AY W OLF , coauthors of Hope Heals

I dont know of anyone Id rather learn about heaven from than Joni Eareckson Tada. From the surprising platform of a wheelchair, Joni has radiated joyful courage and gospel hope for more than fifty years. She longs for the world to come, but even more, she longs for the King who came. The first thing I plan to do on resurrected legs, Joni will often say, is drop on grateful, glorified knees. Believers who read this powerful book wont just learn about their future home; theyll long for it.

M ATT S METHURST , managing editor of The Gospel Coalition and author of 12 Thessalonians: A 12-Week Study

Step back for a moment, focus your eyes of faith, and then come with Joni Eareckson Tada into a world youve heard about from your youth but have never seen: heaven. Youll learn what heaven is like and who will be thereand how you can prepare your heart on earth for the reality of heaven. You just may discover that heaven is closerand more realthan youve ever thought. My friend Joni is one of Gods choice servants of today.

T HE LATE C HUCK C OLSON , Prison Fellowship

Though Christian culture is awash in bland thinking about heaven, Joni Eareckson Tadas Heaven is not like that. It is the product of decades of meditation on biblical teachings about a new earth more real than this one, with streets, rivers, and things to rule. Many will be surprised to know that God has crowns and rewards in store for those who did not drink the Kool-Aid of complacent theology but who allowed suffering to be a purifier and preparer for the next life.

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