Song of Solomon 4:7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. In today’s reading, Solomon summarizes his impression of his bride by declaring that there is no flaw in her. Is love blind? Perhaps when we look through the eyes of love, we gain such a perspective. If we look at this passage from a spiritual … More No flaw? Already, not yet.
A quote regarding Song of Solomon 3, our passage for today: They often ask where to draw the line for sexual activity outside of marriage. What they are asking is how close they can to sin while still being without sin. But there is already sin in their heart because they are seeking to get … More Solomon: Do not awaken love
Here is another clip from “Peasant Princess”, a sermon series fromPastor Mark Driscoll on the Song of Solomon…this time on love languages …if you have time, listen to or watch the full sermon.
Pastor Mark Driscoll preached a sermon series through the book of Song of Solomon, and here is a clip from his first message “Let His Kiss Me.” In an introduction, he details the sexual sin that saturates our culture. Sex can be viewed as either a god, as gross, or as a gift. The Bible teaches … More Choice: dirty toilet water or pure, clean water?
Ray Stedman comments on Song of Solomon 8:9 God has ordained that the delights reflected here be a part of the experience of man and woman in marriage. To ignore this is to cheapen these delights and to make sex as commonplace as cutting one’s fingernails. That which, with due restraint, is intended to be … More Sex, Walls and Doors
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. Song of Solomon 8:7 You can’t buy love. We see this truth repeatedly in our culture. A person can be wealthy beyond comprehension and yet be lonely and unloved. … More Spurgeon: “Unpurchasable Love”
October 24 Song of Solomon 8:1-7 (ESV) 8:1 Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me. 2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to … More October 24 Song of Solomon 8:1-7
“Into the Fields” Mark Driscoll sermon on Song of Solomon 7:11-13 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; 12 let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I … More “Into the Fields” Mark Driscoll on Dating
Solomon 6:10 I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me. Steve Zeisler, Peninsula Bible Church: The word translated “desire” in verse 10 is used only two other times in the Old Testament. Genesis 3:16 is God’s statement to Eve: “Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you,” and it refers … More Connect the dots…and see hope!
A quote regarding Song of So They often ask where to draw the line for sexual activity outside of marriage. What they are asking is how close they can to sin while still being without sin. But there is already sin in their heart because they are seeking to get closer to sin and not … More Do not awaken love
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