The Love of God is so much better than anything this world has to offer. Feeling the reality of this helps our longings, and entire lives, to be transformed.
Sermons by Callum Elwood (Page 9)
The Christian journey is one of increasing intimacy with God.
Whether you are back in the office or not, this year and a half have been a strange one for living out our faith in the workplace. How are we…
The Christian message is one of hope, a living, lasting, beautiful hope.
In this dream, the man seeks intimacy with his bride, but she delays. By the time she readies herself, he has departed, and she runs through the streets to find him. They are then reunited.
Love in a fallen world leads us to the arms of God
The woman and her beloved consummate their relationship.
The beauty and freedom of God’s design for sex shows us the wonder of the gospel and Christs love for us.
The woman is sought by her beloved with cries to come away with him, but ‘do not awaken!’
The woman dreams that she must go about the city to find her beloved. We see the power and pain of love and sex, and why we need pointing to God and the final marriage.
God’s design for sex, relationships, and marriage combats the ways in which the world says we are lacking
Song of Solomon 1:1–4 God’s design for sex and relationships and marriage is fundamentally positive. Our longings however are not, they are broken, we need God’s redeeming love.
Everybody loves a fairytale ending, a happily ever after, and yet that is not how Nehemiah ends. Nehemiah has been away and returns to see the drift of God’s people away from him, it ends the book on a bitter note, which helps us to see just how great our need is for Christ.