Chapter Eight: Remember Your Vows

[1] Rabbi Dr. S. M. Lehrman, “The Song of Songs,” The Five Megilloth, ed. Dr. A. Cohen (New York: The Soncino Press, 1946), 12.

[2] Lehrman, 12.

[3] Tim Alan Gardner, Sacred Sex: A Spiritual Celebration of Oneness in Marriage (Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook, 2002), 193–195.

[4] Gardner, 196.

[5] L. Koehler, W. Baumgartner, M. Richardson, and J. J. Stamm, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, electronic ed. (New York: Brill, 1999), s.v. “samach.”

[6] Dr. Howard Hendricks, e-mail message to author, April 2, 2004.

[7] Adapted from C. W. Neal, Your 30-Day Journey to Being a Great Husband (Nashville: Nelson, 1992), 40–41.

[8] Adapted from Neal, 40–41.

[9] Ron Allen, Worship: The Missing Jewel of the Christian Church (Portland: Multnomah, 1982), 120.