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| Title: | Labor with Hope |
| Subtitle: | Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood |
| Published: | June 30, 2026 |
| ISBN-13: | 979-8-8749-1485-1 |
| Category: | Women |
| Retail Price: | $19.99 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Trim: | 5.25 in x 8.0 in |
| Page Count: | 160 |
Labor with Hope: Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By Gloria Furman, With Jesse Scheumann
Labor with Hope: Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By Gloria Furman, With Jesse Scheumann
The world is full of advice for pregnant women. Popular books and well-meaning family members and friends offer expectant moms mountains of (often unsolicited) advice. While this advice sometimes leads to increased joy and excitement, all too often it results in feelings of discouragement and fear. The Bible, perhaps surprisingly, also has a lot to say about pregnancy—offering real, life-shaping hope that nothing in this world can match. In 25 short meditations, Gloria Furman helps women see labor and birth from the perspective of the whole Bible, infusing cosmic meaning into their personal experience and directing their focus off of themselves and onto Christ. Written for women of all ages—especially expectant moms—this book highlights the limitless power and strength that Christ offers to all who rely on him, enabling women to truly labor with hope.
Author:
Gloria Furman (MACE, Dallas Theological Seminary) lives in the Middle East where her husband, Dave, serves as the pastor of Redeemer Church of Dubai. She is the author of many books, including Labor with Hope; Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full; and Glimpses of Grace.
Product Details
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Author's 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 God’s Judgment
7. God’s Birth Pain
8. The Gospel Is the Ultimate Cure to the Abortion Epidemic
9. Tasting Death for Others
10. The Birth Pains of Death
11. Jesus’s 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. Don’t Trust Birth; Trust God
24. God Who Causes to Give Forth
25. From Inevitable Sorrow to Guaranteed Joy
Scripture Index
"In this book, Gloria Furman invites us to look through a gospel telescope that helps us focus our blurred, painful, and mundane perspective of pregnancy into a sharp, eternal, and glorious reality.”
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