Warsaw in the nineties, a long queue at the post office, and a young man discovering he would gladly stand in it even longer, because she is standing next to him. From that scene the speaker leads us through the Song of Songs, built like a mountain: from first fascination, through belonging to one another and the wedding, up to the summit where the chorus celebrates love. The sermon shows why intimacy cut off from God loses its context, like a bird with the sky taken away, and what marriage really is within it. Listen if you want to see love, sex and faithfulness the way God’s own poetry describes them.
Intimacy
For Better or Worse
How do you build relationships at different stages of a relationship? How do you move from the getting-to-know-each-other stage, through the decision to live together and any crises, to a mature relationship? If you want to find out, you can’t miss our new teaching series on the Song of Songs. This book has stirred emotions for centuries because, in describing the relationship between a man and a woman, it devotes a great deal of attention to the charms of physical intimacy. Although it was written in ancient times, it remains surprisingly relevant today.
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