By: Erin Smith
Many couples can tell you all about where they met, how their relationship developed and what the marriage proposal was like. They can also tell you about their wedding day and the nervous anticipation of what was taking place.
Tar Heel Baptist Church Pastor Devon Varnam is offering couples a chance to renew their vows and in the process renew their commitment to one another.
“As we started the new year at Tar Heel Baptist Church, we began a new sermon series called “The ‘S’ Word,” walking through the book of Song of Solomon. During this season of our church’s life, we have many young couples who are engaged or who have recently gotten married, and we also have many couples who have been married for several decades,” said Pas. Devon Varnam.
He continued, “So, God led me to preach this series which covers dating, courting, marriage, fighting well, differences between men and women, and how to finish well. As I was preparing to preach this series and was reading the book by Dr. Daniel Akin called God on Sex, he mentioned that Dr. Paige Patterson had done a renewing of vows for couples. This gave me the idea to give married couples a chance to renew their vows on the day that I preach about marriage from the book of Song of Solomon.”
Varnam said that as he was looking at his calendar to determine when he would be preaching that passage, he realized it would fall on Valentine’s Day.
“So this Valentine’s Day at 11 a.m. it will be a special time at Tar Heel Baptist Church. Our sanctuary will be decorated like a wedding, we will have special music, and at the end of my sermon, we will enter into the renewing of vows ceremony for any married Tar Heel Baptist Church members who would like to renew their vows. Three of the couples who have signed up have been married for less than 10 years and one couple have been married for over 40 years,” said Varnam.
We are excited for all of the couples that have made the decision to renew their vows on Sunday!
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