Together Till Death Us Do Part

How can pastors help couples make a solid beginning as they launch out into the rocky waters of marriage? How can the pastor speak briefly but effectively to them when they approach the altar?<br><br>John M. Braaten provides 21 well-crafted homilies for marriage in a Christian context. A wide variety of scripture and circumstances are represented in this choice collection. This single-volume library will serve the busy parish pastor well as he or she ministers to couples coming to make their wedding promises.<br><br><i>Things I like about these sermons include... the up-beat spirit of them... the emphasis on the embrace of the community of faith... the mellow realism...</i><br>Gerhard Frost Professor Emeritus<br>Luther-Northwestern Seminary<br><br><i>I like this little book. In a day when wedding homilies have become incidental to the marriage service and are sometimes omitted altogether Pastor Braaten gives us short warm and practical sermons that would enhance any wedding.</i><br>Alvin Rogness<br>Author pastor President Emeritus<br>Luther-Northwestern Seminary<br><br><i>These sermons include an astouding variety of material and text yet they all present the gospel to those who are beginning their life together.</i><br>William A. Poovey<br>Emeritus Professor of Preaching<br>Wartburg Theological Seminary<br><br><b>John M. Braaten</b> is pastor of Administration at Bethel Lutheran Church Rochester Minnesota. He is an ordained clergyman in the American Lutheran Church.