Episode Details

Strength to Strength welcomed Bill Shiley to share about Christian singlehood.

Is singlehood a season to be endured? Does God, in fact, place a premium on marriage?

Is the common perception that singles need to “find their fulfillment in God” an adequate response? In this presentation, Bill shares about where the New Testament teaches fulfillment is to be found.

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.

This poem, shared during the presentation, captures an important reminder to all:

As the King Passed By

As the king passed by, thro’ the narrow street,

With a thousand menials in his train,

Ready to catch the downcast rein,

Or lie in the dust at his princely feet,

A peasant sat in his lowly door,

And the sunshine lay on his cottage floor,

As the king passed by.

And unto himself the peasant said,

As he caught the shimmer of purple and gold,

And saw the menials young and old

Attend each turn of the royal head:

“How enviable a man is he —

A life of ease and minstrelsy!”

As the king passed by.

As the king passed by, his eyes beheld

The peasant sitting by his door,

And the golden sunlight on his floor.

And beneath the purple his weary heart swelled,

And he sighed: “What were it worth to be

Like yonder peasant, trammell free”

As the king passed by.

Charles Stebbins