Labor with Hope

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 they point to eternal realities. You will see that only Christ can provide the strength they desperately need in order to truly labor with hope.

1. Opening Credits
2. Author’s Note
3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1: In the Image of God He Created Them
5. Chapter 2: Be Fruitful and Multiply
6. Chapter 3: The Promised Seed of Woman
7. Chapter 4: Why Does Childbirth Hurt So Bad?
8. Chapter 5: Pain in Parenting
9. Chapter 6: Writhing Under God’s Judgment
10. Chapter 7: God’s Birth Pain
11. Chapter 8: The Gospel Is the Ultimate Cure for the Abortion Epidemic
12. Chapter 9: Tasting Death for Others
13. Chapter 10: The Birth Pains of Death
14. Chapter 11: Jesus’s Death Begets Spiritual Offspring
15. Chapter 12: Birth Pain After Childbirth to Raise Spiritual Disciples
16. Chapter 13: Putting Pain in Its Place
17. Chapter 14: All Creation in the Throes of Labor
18. Chapter 15: Conceived in Sin and Saved by Grace
19. Chapter 16: You Must Be Born Again
20. Chapter 17: Boasting Only in the Cross
21. Chapter 18: A Tomb Became a Womb for the New Creation
22. Chapter 19: Our Deliverer Delivered Through Birth Pains
23. Chapter 20: Saved Through Childbearing
24. Chapter 21: Children Are a Blessing
25. Chapter 22: Knit Together
26. Chapter 23: Don’t Trust Birth; Trust God
27. Chapter 24: God Who Causes to Bring Forth
28. Chapter 25: From Inevitable Sorrow to Guaranteed Joy
29. Closing Credits