Hello this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible daily devotions free ebooks

and more now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

We're in an Old Testament book of the Bible

called The Song of Songs,

and we're dealing with the issue of real romance

and I'm going to cover much of the Song of Songs

in the sermon series,

but two other resources I want to make you aware of there is the real romance book and you get a free copy on the way out if you're watching online go ahead and buy one through our friends at XO. And also there are parts of the song of songs

that are perhaps not quite appropriate for Church.

Those happen to be my favorite sections in New Life Versus.

But you can go to the Real Marriage Podcast sign up wherever you get your

podcast and Grace and I go through all the details in the song of songs

including the things that maybe wouldn't quite work for a church

setting and if you don't know what I'm talking about just check it out for

yourself all right here's what we're going to do today's topic is the most important day of your marriage is the last day.

If you are married, just hold hands for a moment.

And if you're fighting, hold both hands.

You need it real bad.

And just think about the first days of your marriage. Think about

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