Love is our most powerful and most abused four letter word. The poet W. H Auden in his famous poem about love wrote: ‘Law like love I say. Like law we often weep, like law we seldom keep.’ Which is … Read more
Tag: Marriage
Matthew 19.1-30. Commitment
Jesus opens up the topics of sex, power and money, topics that were as difficult to speak about when he addressed them as they are for us today. His solution is not to proclaim our rights in these areas but … Read more
Luke 20: 27-47. Marriage & life
Our conversations about marriage in Australia seldom recall what traditional societies know as a matter of course. That marriage is about life. How life is nurtured, sustained and passed on in a dying world. Jesus, in his discussion with the … Read more
Song of Songs: Questions asked
Below are pastoral questions that were asked during this teaching series on Song of Songs. [Article]
Michael Flynn
For further thought
Given the woman often takes initiatives in the relationship in Songs, what does this say about teaching on male … Read more
Song of Songs 3:1-11. Love and loneliness
Singleness, loneliness and the frustratiton of desire are part of life. They are also part of the contrasts that make up the poetry of Song of Songs. Perhaps to the surprise of our city today, we discover the Biblical God … Read more
Song of Songs 1:1-2:12. A woman’s love
There is only one erotic writing from the ancient world where we hear the voice and desires of a woman. It is the Biblical wisdom book, Song of Songs. In fact, the majority of the speaking done in this book … Read more
Song of Songs. Introduction
Everything depends upon this. Understanding this book, more than any other in the Bible, entirely depends upon how we introduce it. Poetry is by its nature ambiguous, yet nearly everything about Song of Songs from its genre, authorship, narrative voices, … Read more