Wedding: Logan Lawrenz and Alexis Brown July 27, 2025

Details

Rehearsal 5:30pm on July 26th, 2025 at Olive and Opal in Siloam Springs Arkansas

Wedding 5 pm July 27, 2025 Kindred Barn- 8606 Old Graphic Rd Mulberry, AR 72947

Bride’s Parents: Adam and Laura Brown (Adam 501) 425-9263

Groom’s Parents: Brian and Ann Lawrenz

Questions for Service

We are either going to have the best man (James Crow) carry the rings in his pocket or have our moms (Laura Brown and Ann Lawrenz) come up and give us the rings

Unity Candle?

Pictures during the service?

Leading the Groom or Standing up there?

Order of Service Overview

Prelude/General Seating/Instructions-Silence Phones

Processional

Presentation of the Bride (“Who entrusts this woman to be married to this man?”)

Welcome/Call to worship (“We have come together . . .”)

Charge and Consent (“Will you take . . .I will”)

Prayer/Blessing

Wedding Homily

Vows

Unity Candle

Now, to celebrate these vows and to consecrate their marriage to the Lord, Logan and Alexis are going pray and light a unity candle to commemorate their Covenant coming together as one flesh.

We are going to have their parents come up to pray and light each of their respective candles as a symbol of their blessing on their marriage…

After which Logan and Alexis will pray together and give thanks to God and dedicate their marriage to the Lord.

During this time if you know the Lord Jesus Christ… you can pray a blessing on their marriage and ask God to help their… and all of our Christian Marriages be a picture of the Gospel and show the Glory of Christ and His love for the Church.

MUSIC STARTS

Rings

Pronouncement and Kiss

Introduction of the Groom and Bride/Recessional

Postlude/Instructions

Benediction

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Prelude

Welcome! We are glad your here to celebrate this amazing day.

We are going to be getting started in few moments, but before we do, I want to get us all on the same page to set this wedding up for success.

Number 1…if you would be so kind, please silence your cell phones.

Go ahead and do it now. Take it out. No ones going to judge you.

I promise you, it will be more embarrassing in the middle of the ceremony, especially after this.

The other thing I’m going ask you is that you do not take pictures during the ceremony.

Now some of you want a picture, so we will give you a chance.

After the processional and Logan and Alexis get up here, we will have a one minute opportunity where you can take all the pictures your heart desires from your seat.

And then we will get started with the ceremony.

Sound good? Everybody square?

Then let’s get this started and get these two married.

(OR: then just give us a few more minutes and we will get these two married).

Processional

Ready for the Bride.

Please rise.

Presentation of the Bride

Pastor: Who entrusts this woman to be married to this man?

Father: Her Mother and I.

Father can kiss and hug the daughter and give her to the groom.

You may be seated.

Welcome

Good afternoon! My name is Cole Shinall and I have the great privilege of serving as Logan and Alexis’ Pastor.

We are grateful to gather here today to celebrate a joyous and momentous occasion.

One of the greatest blessings any two people can ever share.

We are gathered together to celebrate the holy wedding of Logan Lawrenz and Alexis Brown.

Our Lord Jesus said Mark 10:6-8 From the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh…What God has joined together let no man separate.

We have come together in the sight of God and this gathering of family and friends to join together Logan and Alexis in holy matrimony, which is a glorious picture of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Of the spiritual union Christ shares with His Bride, the Church, through His sinless life, sacrificial death, and bodily resurrection forever wedding the church to Himself for our salvation.

Therefore Hebrews 13:4 says Let marriage be held in honor among all, and that is our purpose here today.

To Honor Christ and celebrate these two getting married!

Charge and Consent

Logan and Alexis, today you are presenting yourselves before God, family, and friends to join together in holy marriage… to become one flesh and share one life as long as you both shall live to the glory of God.

You stand here making two great commitments:

First, to each other.

To love one another all the days of your life in both blessing and adversity with complete faithfulness, love, and perseverance.

And…number two and most of all...a commitment to God Himself.

That your marriage would be a window to the world that displays the love of Christ for His church, and the Church’s love and commitment to follow Him.

So Logan, given these commitments and the promises entailed with them, will you have Alexis to be your loving wife?

Will you love, honor, and cherish her, forsaking all others, promising remain faithful to her as long as you two shall live?

“I will.”

Logan, will you have Alexis to be your loving husband? Will you love, honor, and cherish him, forsaking all others, promising to remain faithful to him as long as you both shall live?

“I will.”

Then let’s begin your new life together with a prayer for God’s blessing.

Prayer

Thanks for manifold blessings

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable… The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made (Psalm 145:3, 8-9).

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband (Proverbs 12:4).

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord (Proverbs 18:22)

Blessing

Beginning of a long marriage that would honor Christ

Five Things

Now before we get to the vows, I wanted to help set the stage for why Logan and Alexis want to be married in the first place.

We are here, after all, to celebrate their love for one another and the commitment they are about to make.

But what’s unique about days like today is that some of you are here because you know and love Alexis, but you don’t really know Logan.

Others of you know and love Logan but you don’t necessarily Alexis.

(The rest of you, I regret to inform you, must have gotten lost and accidentally ended up at the wrong wedding).

So to help us enjoy and celebrate their love for one another, I asked Logan and Alexis to each give me 5 things that they love about the other.

They don’t know what the other person wrote, and I want to share them with you now.

Groom

First, we’ll start with Logan and why he loves Alexis, but given that smile its not hard to tell why.

Number 1… Her eyes.

Number 2… The way she goes about experiencing the world.

Anna notices the small things in everything she does, and she has a true love and appreciation for the world around her, and it’s beautiful to see.

She experiences everything she does 110%.

Austin also said he loves Anna’s laugh and sense of humor.

All the funny sayings that she has or the way she says certain things.

Number 4… She is incredibly driven.

No matter what she always goes for her goals.

She stops at nothing to accomplish them, and has the grit to endure and push through to achieve them.

(Grit’s good. Especially for marriage. You need a wife that when things get tough the tough gets going.

Its one of the best qualities to have).

And Number 5… How Anna is so full of love and joy.

And number 6… She is both my best friend and my other half.

I’ll tell you. That’s what makes a marriage work.

Strive to be best friends with your spouse.

That’s how you find an excellent wife who is a crown to her husband and far more precious than jewels (Proverbs 31:10, 12:4).

Now some you might be thinking I thought he said only five?

Well going back and forth with Austin… and he doesn’t know I put this in… Austin said let me know if you need anything else. “I could literally write for days about Anna and not run out of good things to say.”

If that gives you any kind of picture of how much he loves her.

Bride

Now for Alexis. What does she love about Logan?

He loves so well.

There has never been a time that I’ve heard someone ever say they don’t like Austin.

He is so caring.

Whether it’s giving you the world's best hug, sitting there listening to me vent, or bringing me flowers because I had a rough day, he always makes the best effort.

He genuinely has a serving spirit.

He loves to talk to people.

Anytime we go anywhere Austin will meet someone and make conversation.

He has such a welcoming personality.

No matter who it is you better bet that he will talk to you like you’re one of his friends.

He is crazy about puzzles.

If you know Austin, you know he is obsessed with puzzles, and have probably heard of his infamous all clear or all black puzzle he willingly decided to do on his own accord. Crazy right?

Sometimes he will work on a puzzle I started a month ago and finish it in a matter of hours. 

He loves helping people.

Austin loves helping others.

It doesn’t matter if it’s helping his landlords with a project, or teaching someone how to simply copy and paste a text message.

You better bet that he will make helping you a top priority.

And finally… He can make his eyes go two separate ways on command.

Yes! two separate ways at the same time.

This is very Austin and I love it.

It catches me off guard every time no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

It’s something that is very Austin, and it’s amazing. 

Transition to Sermon

I’m sure that this doesn’t even scratch the surface of how much you two truly love one another.

And after all, that’s why we are all here today.

But here’s what’s truly amazing...

Your love for one another, as great as it is, is only just a shadow… a vague picture… of Christ’s amazing love for us.

Ultimately, your marriage will endure and will be a continual source of life and blessing to each of you as you live out and remember that, before anything else, God calls your marriage to glorify Him.

To use the covenant you are making here today to show the world a glimpse...a small picture of the kind of steadfast, covenant-keeping love Christ has for us in the good news of His salvation.

Sermon

Because that is what every marriage is ultimately about…the glory of Christ.

Every single marriage is to be a picture of the gospel.

Of Christ’s covenantal… sacrificial… never ending…through thick and thin… higher than the heavens love for us.

As I thought about what I wanted to say today, how to best serve you and commission you in your marriage, I thought the best way, the best thing I could do for you, was ignore everyone else, and speak to each of you directly.

To set Christ at the center of your marriage and charge you to do all that you can to make your marriage all about Him.

Ephesians 5:31-32 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

According to Paul, Marriage is all about Christ.

It is a picture of Christ and His Church.

And that’s the one thing I want to leave you with today.

Make your marriage a picture of the gospel.

In doing so you will not only reap and enjoy all the blessings that God has given us in marriage, but you will also build a marriage to do the greatest thing a marriage could ever do: Exalt the glory of Christ.

In Ephesians 5, the great chapter on marriage in the Bible, Paul gives us two sets of commands...

One set of the commands pertain to the husband and the other to the wife.

And in these commands, not only do the blessings of marriage begin to flow, but in obeying them the marriage itself begins to proclaim a great and wonderful mystery...

The love of Christ for the Church and the Church’s love for Christ in return.

To the Groom

Paul says Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church (Eph 5:25).

Logan, every man that has ever been married will tell you, that is the hardest thing you will ever do.

The life God calls you to as a husband is one of constantly dying.

Dying to your self, laying down your life, for the good and blessing of your wife.

Listen to what Paul says: Ephesians 5:25-30 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

That is what Christ came to do for us.

The eternal Son of God took on human flesh to offer His life as a sacrifice for our sins.

He gave Himself up for the Church, for any who would believe in His name, to sanctify her and cleanse her.

That He might present the Church to Himself in splendor without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.

Christ died for us and suffered the wrath of God on our behalf to present us to Himself holy and without blemish.

All because of His great love for us.

And that’s the same kind of love Paul calls you to have towards your wife.

Paul says you are her head, even as Christ is the head of the Church (Ephesians 5:23).

And as the head, God calls you to take responsibility for your wife.

To love and cherish her as your own body.

As Adam said, Bone of your bone…flesh of your flesh (Gen. 2:23).

Ephesians 5: In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

God has given you a great blessing in giving you a beloved wife.

Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor [that is grace] from the Lord.

In the same way that Christ laid down His life for the blessing and benefit of the Church, God calls you to lay down your life for your wife.

In all things to use the authority God has entrusted to you as the head to serve not yourself, but her and her benefit, and any children that God would graciously give you.

Lay down your life for their good

That is how you as a husband proclaim the glory Christ and his great towards us.

His love and tender care for the church for our good blessing and salvation.

Make your marriage a picture of the gospel and show the world the love of Christ in laying down His life for the Church.

To the Bride

Now Alexis, Ephesians 5 calls you to…

Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church...Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

And later Paul defines this submission as respect and obedience.

Alexis, as a wife, you have the great privilege of showing the world the glory of Christ.

The glory of His trustworthiness. Faithfulness. And Goodness.

All by submitting to and respecting your husband in the Lord.

Because at the end of the day, as you follow Logan, a sinful and fallen man… just like any other man…. you are not showing your faith in Logan, as much as you are showing your faith in the Lord Jesus as you trust and follow him.

Your obedience to your husband…the love and respect you show him is not a lesser position in your marriage.

In fact, the glory of marriage would be incomplete without it.

How you submit to and follow Logan as he leads you and your family in the Lord, is meant to be a picture of how the church is called to love and submit to Christ.

And the glory of that is, what you are ultimately doing… as a wife… is showing the world the glory and goodness of Christ’s own love towards us and how worthy He is of all of our love and submission to Him in return.

Not to mention, Logan can’t do it without you.

God gave Adam Eve, because Adam needed a helper suitable for him to glorify God and fulfill God’s call on his life.

Just like Logan needs you.

You are a gift of the Lord (Proverbs 18:22)

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels…She does him good…all the days of her life (Proverbs 31:10).

Make your marriage a picture of the gospel.

Show the world the glory of Christ’s goodness, love, and faithfulness and how He is worthy of our whole hearted love and devotion to Him.

Conclusion

A man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church (Ephesians 5:31-32).

A Christian marriage is a glorious window into the most glorious love this world has ever known.

Yes…marriage is a great blessing.

One of the greatest blessings we could ever know.

Someone to share our highest highs, our lowest lows and someone to encourage us every inch of the way.

It is also the way God provides the great blessing of children which the Bible says are a heritage from the Lord…blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! (Psalm 127:3, 5).

But marriage is so much more than that.

Its a picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Of His covenant love for us in taking on human flesh and wedding us to Himself forever in His sinless life, sacrificial death, and bodily resurrection to pay for all of our sins and give us eternal life.

And the covenant you are making today, is a small picture of that Covenant God has made with us and for all who believe.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

Logan and Alexis, this is the foundation of your marriage.

You are both a son and daughter of God, born again to glorify his Name and are joining together today to show the world the kind of love, grace, and mercy the Father freely offers us in Christ.

By God’s grace, let your marriage and the way you love one another from this day forward, be a picture of Christ’s amazing, covenant-keeping love for his Church.

Now has come the time we’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready to celebrate your covenant love for one another in getting married?

“Yes.”

Vows

Then please turn and face each other and join hands.

Logan, repeat after me.

I Logan

Take you, Alexis

to be my wedded wife,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better or for worse,

for richer or for poorer,

in sickness and in health,

to love and to cherish,

to lead and protect

all the days of my life.

With God as my witness,

I give you my promise.

Now Alexis, will you repeat after me.

I Alexis, take you, Logan

to be my wedded husband,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better or for worse,

for richer or for poorer,

in sickness and in health,

to love and to cherish,

to respect and obey

all the days of my life

with God as my witness,

I give you my promise.

Unity Candle

Now, to celebrate these vows and to consecrate their marriage to the Lord, Logan and Alexis are going pray and light a unity candle to commemorate their Covenant coming together as one flesh.

We are going to have their parents come up to pray and light each of their respective candles as a symbol of their blessing on their marriage…

After which Logan and Alexis will pray together and give thanks to God and dedicate their marriage to the Lord.

During this time if you know the Lord Jesus Christ… you can pray a blessing on their marriage and ask God to help their… and all of our Christian Marriages be a picture of the Gospel and show the Glory of Christ and His love for the Church.

MUSIC STARTS

Rings

You ready to seal the deal?

Logan and Alexis will now exchange rings as a symbol of love and commitment to each other.

These rings are a reminder of your covenant, and a symbol of the lifelong commitment that you have made to each other and to the Lord.

Logan, please take Alexis’ ring and place it on her finger, holding it there and repeat these words.

Alexa, I give you this ring

as a symbol of my love and commitment to you

and with all that I am,

and all that I have,

I promise to love and honor you

In the name of the Father,

and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Alexa, take Logan’s ring and place it on his finger, holding it there and repeat after me.

Logan, I give you this ring

as a symbol of my love and commitment to you

and with all that I am,

and all that I have,

I promise to love and honor you

In the name of the Father,

and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Pronouncement and Kiss

And now by the power vested in me by the One True God of Heaven and Earth and our Lord Jesus Christ it is my honor to pronounce you man and wife.

Logan, you may kiss your bride.

Ladies and Gentlemen, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, it is my great joy to present to you Mr. and Mrs. Logan Lawrenz!

Recessional

Postlude

Thank you so much for coming!

The Bride and the Groom are going to be taking pictures at this time, but they have invited everyone to the reception immediately following the ceremony.

After we dismiss your free to head there now and the Bride and Groom will meet us there where you can say your congratulations and give your blessings.

And now with all that said please rise for the benediction:

The Lord bless you and keep you;

the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

the Lord lift up his face upon you and give you peace.