Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith.

Ask questions, seek answers,

and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for watered down Christian teaching.

And if you're ready to go deeper God is just as ready to

take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian.

In this very first episode on women's issues and scripture, I thought what could be more appropriate

than beginning with pregnancy and birth?

Because not only isn't relevant and kind of that foundational

discussion starting in Genesis 3 but I'm also 38 weeks pregnant at the time of this recording.

And so I can't think of anything that is more on my mind than the topic of pregnancy

and birth and how we relate to that scripturally. Now this is something I'm very

passionate about of all of the women's issues are going to discuss obviously I

care about them all but this one in particular is close to my heart and not just

because I have a baby inside me right now. It's mainly because how we talk about

pregnancy and birth comes with so much baggage. There are so many women who have heard these

negative and depressing narratives that people have said are actually scriptural and that their understanding of

Genesis 3 and labor pain is from the Bible when in fact it's not. And so in this episode we're going to talk about what scripture really

says concerning labor, birth and pregnancy will touch on fertility and

infertility and infertility and how we have the hope of redemption throughout.

Now through this entire series my hope is to keep the gospel central.

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