Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth invites you to run after Christ.

It can't be running simultaneously in two directions.

So if we want to run toward Christ, we need to be willing to run away from anything that

competes or distracts from our relationship with Him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, February 25, 2016.

This week, Nancy began a series called How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus. If you're a follower of Jesus, this series

will show you how to grow more intimate with him. And if you don't know him, it's an invitation

to fall in love with him for the first time. Here's Nancy. Well, we're still in the early

days of a series that's going to take us a few weeks.

I'm not even sure yet exactly how many days it's going to be.

And we're airing it during this Lenton series leading up to Passover and Passion Week.

And what prompted that in my thinking was the fact that the Jews during their Passover celebration

read the Song of Solomon.

They see in it a picture of God's covenant love for his chosen people.

And I thought how fitting it would be for us to be studying this passage leading up to the

celebration of Christ's passion for us as death and resurrection.

As we're seeing in this book, of course,

it's a beautiful story about love and marriage, and we're going to be talking more about that.

But at the heart of it all is a relationship that God has with his people, that Christ has

with his bride, the church, and us as individual believers. Now, again, I've said it, and I'll

repeat it here, that I realize that in taking that position about the Song of Solomon, I'm

kind of swimming upstream as to how people, many people view that book today, but the historic

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