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“This is my last sermon as a single man.”

Jennifer Terrell & Steve DeWitt

“This is a message that I have waited 44 years to give,” pastor Steve DeWitt told Bethel Church in Crown Point, Indiana.

His congregation immediately knew what he was talking about and started to cheer.

He told them anyway, to shouts, claps, and whistles: “This is my last sermon as a single man.”

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When we are reading love stories, we need to focus on what God has done—not on what the people did—because our very best “rightness” is still worth nothing in the Kingdom of God. It doesn’t guarantee us a single thing. Love stories are about how God moved, even when people didn’t have any idea that He was there.

(Natasha Metzler in "How to Read Love Stories")

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