Labor with Hope
Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
979-8-8749-1485-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Beautiful meditations for you to ponder as you labor through your pregnancy and wonder, 'Why is this like it is?'"
Elyse Fitzpatrick, author, Give Them Grace
The world is filled with mixed messages about pregnancy. Popular books and well-meaning family and friends offer you unsolicited advice about what to expect and how to stay healthy-sometimes resulting in joy and excitement but other times leading to discouragement and fear.
The Bible, too, has a lot to say about childbirth-offering real hope that nothing in this world can match. In Labor with Hope, Gloria Furman helps you see pregnancy, infertility, miscarriage, birth pain, and new life in the framework of the larger biblical narrative, infusing cosmic meaning into your personal experience by exploring how these topics point to eternal realities.
You will see that only Christ can provide the strength they desperately need in order to truly labor with hope.
Elyse Fitzpatrick, author, Give Them Grace
The world is filled with mixed messages about pregnancy. Popular books and well-meaning family and friends offer you unsolicited advice about what to expect and how to stay healthy-sometimes resulting in joy and excitement but other times leading to discouragement and fear.
The Bible, too, has a lot to say about childbirth-offering real hope that nothing in this world can match. In Labor with Hope, Gloria Furman helps you see pregnancy, infertility, miscarriage, birth pain, and new life in the framework of the larger biblical narrative, infusing cosmic meaning into your personal experience by exploring how these topics point to eternal realities.
You will see that only Christ can provide the strength they desperately need in order to truly labor with hope.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wheaton, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
283 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-8749-1485-1 (9798874914851)
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Persons
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.
Jesse Scheumann is a PhD student at the University of the Free State and assistant professor of biblical and religious studies at Sattler College. He and his wife founded Picture Hebrew, a site dedicated to illustrated resources for learning biblical Hebrew.
Jesse Scheumann is a PhD student at the University of the Free State and assistant professor of biblical and religious studies at Sattler College. He and his wife founded Picture Hebrew, a site dedicated to illustrated resources for learning biblical Hebrew.
Content
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
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