{"product_id":"9798874914851-labor-with-hope-gloria-furman","title":"Labor with Hope: Gospel Meditations on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2773\/2624\/files\/9781433563072-labor-with-hope-gospel-meditations-on-pregnancy-childbirth-and-motherhood-furman-gloria.pdf?v=1648425798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLook Inside the First Edition Here 🔎\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 healthy—sometimes resulting in joy and excitement but other times leading to discouragement and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bible, too, has a lot to say about childbirth—offering real hope that nothing in this world can match. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLabor with Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 these topics point to eternal realities. Women will see that only Christ can provide the strength they desperately need in order to labor with hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25 short chapters written as meditations on labor and childbearing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApplies God's Word to women who are in the uniquely challenging season of pregnancy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows how the themes of labor and childbirth are found throughout the Old and New Testaments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e160 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reformers.com.au\/blogs\/reformers-blog\/book-review-labor-with-hope-gloria-furman\"\u003eRead our Reformers Review by Shamira Eglinton here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Gloria Furman has a disarming way of connecting the most concrete stuff of our lives to the most glorious truth of the gospel. She’s doing it again here, as she peers into the realities of pregnancy and childbirth through the windows of Scripture. This book opens the windows wide. We do well to ponder this theme, of which God keeps reminding us in all kinds of painful and marvelous ways.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--- Kathleen Nielson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e author; speaker; Senior Adviser, The Gospel Coalition \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Gloria Furman has written devotionals that will transform the way we view pregnancy from conception to birth and beyond.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabor with Hope\u003c\/i\u003emagnifies the glory of Christ and all that he has done, and helps us fix our eyes on the one who gives eternal life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--- Trillia Newbell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eauthor,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSacred Endurance\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf God Is for Us\u003c\/em\u003e; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGod’s Very Good Idea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"accordion-section-header\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"accordion-section-header\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accordion-section-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Note\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. In the Image of God He Created Them\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Be Fruitful and Multiply\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Promised Seed of Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Why Does Childbirth Hurt So Bad?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Pain in Parenting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Writhing under God’s Judgment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. God’s Birth Pain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. The Gospel Is the Ultimate Cure to the Abortion Epidemic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Tasting Death for Others\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. The Birth Pains of Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Jesus’s Death Begets Spiritual Offspring\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Birth Pain after Childbirth to Raise Spiritual Disciples\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Putting Pain in Its Place\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. All Creation in the Throes of Labor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. Conceived in Sin and Saved by Grace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. You Must Be Born Again\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. Boasting Only in the Cross\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18. A Tomb Became a Womb for the New Creation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. Our Deliverer Delivered through Birth Pains\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20. Saved through Childbearing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21. Children Are a Blessing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22. Knit Together\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23. Don’t Trust Birth; Trust God\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24. God Who Causes to Give Forth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25. From Inevitable Sorrow to Guaranteed Joy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScripture Index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crossway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45975089086543,"sku":"9798874914851","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2773\/2624\/files\/9798874914851-labor-with-hope-gloria-furman.jpg?v=1782542197","url":"https:\/\/reformers.com.au\/products\/9798874914851-labor-with-hope-gloria-furman","provider":"Reformers Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}