"Relating to Marriage" (Song of Songs 8:6-7)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships. As we wrap up this series we’re looking at the Song of Songs (also Song of Solomon)—a whole book of the Bible dedicated to love poetry. Tonight guest preacher Tim Inman from Christ Church in Dunn, NC talks about the biblical vision for covenant marriage. Links: Tim Keller on "The Meaning Of Marriage" Talks at GoogleMegan Hill- The Biggest Misconception About Marriage Among Dating CouplesQuotes: "In this fallen world, there are no promises that marriage, for all its capacity to be beautiful and enriching, will be a lifelong series of increasing physical delights. In reality, a healthy marriage will probably lean more on the Sermon on the Mount than on the Song of Solomon.” -James Eglinton“Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh' (Genesis 2:24). This radically upside-down statement would have shocked the original readers of Genesis and should shock us too. I don't know of any culture where men are depicted as clinging to their wives. Certainly within a patriarchal world, this is getting things backwards. There the wife leaves her parents and is absorbed into her husband's family.” ― Carolyn Custis James"May all of your expectations be frustrated, may all of your plans be thwarted, may all of your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child, and can sing and dance in the love of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.” --Larry Hine