
Labor with Hope
Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Labor with Hope
Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
About this book
The world is filled with messages for women about pregnancy. Popular books and well-meaning family and friends offer unsolicited advice about what to expect and how to stay healthyāsometimes resulting in joy and excitement but other times leading to discouragement and fear.
The Bible, too, has a lot to say about childbirthāoffering real hope that nothing in this world can match. InĀ Labor with Hope, Gloria Furman helps women see topics such as pregnancy, infertility, miscarriage, birth pain, and new life in the framework of the larger biblical narrative, infusing cosmic meaning into their personal experience by exploring how they point to eternal realities. Women will see that only Christ can provide the strength they desperately need in order to labor with hope.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Newsletter Signup
- Endorsements
- Other Crossway Books
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Authorās Note
- Introduction
- 1 In the Image of God He Created Them
- 2 Be Fruitful and Multiply
- 3 The Promised Seed of Woman
- 4 Why Does Childbirth Hurt So Bad?
- 5 Pain in Parenting
- 6 Writhing under Godās Judgment
- 7 Godās Birth Pain
- 8 The Gospel Is the Ultimate Cure for the Abortion Epidemic
- 9 Tasting Death for Others
- 10 The Birth Pains of Death
- 11 Jesusās Death Begets Spiritual Offspring
- 12 Birth Pain after Childbirth to Raise Spiritual Disciples
- 13 Putting Pain in Its Place
- 14 All Creation in the Throes of Labor
- 15 Conceived in Sin and Saved by Grace
- 16 You Must Be Born Again
- 17 Boasting Only in the Cross
- 18 A Tomb Became a Womb for the New Creation
- 19 Our Deliverer Delivered through Birth Pains
- 20 Saved through Childbearing
- 21 Children Are a Blessing
- 22 Knit Together
- 23 Donāt Trust Birth; Trust God
- 24 God Who Causes to Bring Forth
- 25 From Inevitable Sorrow to Guaranteed Joy
- Scripture Index