Pastor mines love nuggets from Song of Solomon.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: January 17, 2001| Author: Hines, Bea L. | Copyright information

"A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts."

Lines from a romantic novel?

Nope. The words come from the Song of Solomon in the Bible. And it gets much steamier.

You've probably never heard it in church; few clergy preach from that steamy Old Testament book.

But Tommy Nelson, a former quarterback and graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, has built a national ministry on it, using the Song ...

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