An Album For My Wife: Commitment & Epilogue (Part 3)

Welcome to the commentary of 1 + 1 = 1: The Courtship of Green & Blue.
This is Part 3, containing tracks 10-15 of the album, that is, the third section of the album called "Commitment" and the "Epilogue". 

Here are links to the Introduction, Prologue & Infatuation (Part 1), and Infatuation (Part 2).

An Album For My Wife: Transition (Part 2)

Welcome to the commentary of 1 + 1 = 1: The Courtship of Green & Blue.

This is Part 2, containing tracks 6-9 of the album, the the second section of the album "Transition" and the instrumental track "First Kiss". 

(Here are links to the Introduction, Prologue & Infatuation (Part 1), and Commitment & Epilogue (Part 3)

An Album For My Wife: Prologue & Infatuation (Part 1)

Welcome to the commentary of 1 + 1 = 1: The Courtship of Green & Blue.

This is Part 1, containing tracks 1-5 of the album, the "Prologue" and "Infatuation", the first section of the album. 
(Here are links to the Introduction, Section 2 "Transition" and Section 3 "Commitment")

An Album For My Wife—The Story of 1 + 1 = 1: Introduction

Ten years ago this summer I began in earnest to record a collection of songs for my wife. The summer of 2006 was a high octane concentration of events for me. I knew at the end of the summer that we were going to move to Evanston, Illinois so I could go to seminary and scattered throughout those months a number of our friends (all of us in our mid-20's) were getting married. It was a time of preparation and celebration. In fact, we ourselves had just gotten married.

June 3, 2016 marked our 10 year anniversary. 06-03-06. This is the commentary to the album I recorded: 1 + 1 = 1: The Courtship of Green & Blue.

Speaking the Truth in Love—A Sermon From Ephesians 4:1-16

This sermon was preached on August 2, 2015 at Epiphany Anglican Mission in Peoria Illinois.

Scriptures:

2nd Samuel 11:26-12:13

Psalm 51:1-13

Ephesians 4:1-16

John 6:24-35

Our Scripture passages this week consist of a big heavy story (2nd Samuel, followed by Psalm 51) and big expansive ideas (Ephesians and John). We have David's sin of murder and infidelity addressed in 2nd Samuel, followed by a raw prayer of repentance in Psalm 51. Then we have Paul painting a grand picture of what the Church is in his letter to the Ephesians, and Jesus speaking of himself as the Bread of Life in the Gospel of John. But despite having all this grand and heavy material at our disposal we are going to zero in on something very specific from Ephesians: speaking the truth to each other in love. We will go back and link some of the bigger ideas to this one concept, but our main focus will be on this one difficult task. It is a great sentiment, speaking the truth in love, but how to actually do so is quite the undertaking.

"Little Boys With Their Porno": Arcade Fire's search for love in the Reflective Age

You can cry, I won't go
You can scream, I won't go
Every man that you know
Would have run at the word go...

Has monogamy ever seemed sexier than on Arcade Fire's "Porno" from 2013's Reflektor?