Yesterday I got the day off work and spent the day with Cheryl, E and others at a wedding. What a beautiful day! Matt and Ursula (her mum’s an active member at HBC) were a neat picture of Christ and His Church (Eph 5:31-32). Was nice that many friends and family flew over from the …
Category Archives: Marriage
Quotable: So often worship in our modern day is like…
Kevin Twit, on comparing what we sing in gathered worship with what we say at weddings: “If all you’re singing and ever saying back to God is you want to do, and you’re never focusing on what He’s done and what He promises to do, I think ultimately your worship will be impoverished and your …
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Song recommendation: Holy/Wedding Day by The City Harmonic
I love how succinctly Canadian band The City Harmonic‘s lyrics sum up the picture of marriage (to point to Jesus’s love for His Church) in that one sentence: This is the story of the Son of God hanging on a cross for me, But it ends with a bride and groom and a wedding by …
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The story behind Andrew Peterson’s “You Came So Close”
Andrew Peterson’s “You Came So Close” has lyrics describing someone’s marriage breaking apart through adultery, but then somehow holding together. Some of the lyrics: You could no more kill the darkness Than you could raise the sun And the sky was cold and black Like the barrel of a gun And I remember the tremble …
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Define marriage
This blog exists, as the header above states, to give “mites from our momentary marriage and ministry”. Yet on the day after one of those words is redefined in our country, what to say? In some ways, with the flurry of thoughts being shared by people much smarter than me (see list below), I don’t …