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Recent Song of Songs Posts Below

Dec 12 2013

God’s Stigma and the Dark Secret of The Shulamite

  • 12/12/2013

Woman's shadowy form with light coming through her

Those who have “the mark” know that it is deeply painful, deeply personal, and one of the most profound honors imaginable. The Shulamite woman in the Song of Songs was one such woman. What little information she does reveal is very intentional. Consider the following:

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Dec 09 2013

Being Gazed Upon – An Intro to Song 1:5-7

  • 12/09/2013

Woman with beautiful piercing eyes and dark, blotchy skin

I am black, and lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem…Don’t see me only as dark, because the sun has looked upon me this way. My brother’s burned in anger with me; they made me guard the vineyards; but I have not guarded my own. Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where do you go to feed your flocks? Why should I be as one that is veiled by the flocks of your companions? ~Song 1:5-7

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Nov 23 2013

House of Peace or House of Cards?

  • 11/23/2013

King David, Solomon’s father, was said to be a man “after God’s own heart.” Not so much after His mind, His purpose, His plans, but His heart. There’s something passionate in this that I can’t shake. David was a visionary for the central part of God, the part that makes Him tick and from which everything flows. One of the ways David expressed this was in a desire for God to have a permanent place to call ‘home.’

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Oct 30 2013

The Song From Above The Sun

  • 10/30/2013

Two of the books that Solomon wrote, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs, seem to be as vastly different as the sun is from the earth.  Did Solomon write the Song in the thralls of “first love,” and Ecclesiastes later after falling away?  Or did he find true love later in life after …

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