We completed a five week series on the Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon, depending on your Bible) the other week which ended up being a lot more fascinating to me than I originally expected. It’s an interesting book, with a lot more complexity to it than it may seem at first glance. One of the reoccurring themes in our series centered around the three Hebrew words that are translated ‘love’ in our English translations; they refer to friendship, commitment, and the physical. I had a few different sources to lean on, but Tremper Longman’s commentary is my favorite.

If you’re curious, you can find the audio from the five weeks on either our podcast page or the iTunes podcast section. And yes, we were reading graphic passages from Song of Songs, so there is some giggling in the audio …