Wedding Admonition
Sermon
THIS NEW LIFE TOGETHER
An Anthology Of Wedding Meditations
__________ and __________, the marriage vows that you have exchanged today are voluntary and equal, the same for the man as for the woman. Regard them not as burdens to weigh you down, but as winged hopes and promises to bear you up into a more happy and abundant life.
Remember, true love is not the passion to possess or to rule, but the desire to give and to bless. Let no secrets divide you, no jealousies come between you, no differences bring bitterness in your hearts. Remember that in true love, your sorrows are cut in half, and your joys are doubled because you share them together. I charge you, don't be motivated by prosperity, nor overcome by adversity; but seek to find fulfillment through a firm faith in God and in each other.
As you make your home together may it indeed be a place of happiness and contentment for yourselves. But may it also be a place where your families and friends may come and find love, joy and peace. But even more than these, may that home be the place from which you go forth each day to be a blessing to all with whom you come in daily contact.
The God of Love unites you together as husband and wife. Go now in peace, trusting that the love which unites you today in holy marriage will also make you one forever.
**Appropriate place for special music or Lord's Prayer.
Paul L. Sandin is pastor of First Baptist Church, Patterson, New Jersey.
Remember, true love is not the passion to possess or to rule, but the desire to give and to bless. Let no secrets divide you, no jealousies come between you, no differences bring bitterness in your hearts. Remember that in true love, your sorrows are cut in half, and your joys are doubled because you share them together. I charge you, don't be motivated by prosperity, nor overcome by adversity; but seek to find fulfillment through a firm faith in God and in each other.
As you make your home together may it indeed be a place of happiness and contentment for yourselves. But may it also be a place where your families and friends may come and find love, joy and peace. But even more than these, may that home be the place from which you go forth each day to be a blessing to all with whom you come in daily contact.
The God of Love unites you together as husband and wife. Go now in peace, trusting that the love which unites you today in holy marriage will also make you one forever.
**Appropriate place for special music or Lord's Prayer.
Paul L. Sandin is pastor of First Baptist Church, Patterson, New Jersey.
