Bad Marriages in the Bible

This is God's scared straight episode for the early church.  Is there any good news in the judgment of Ananias and Sapphira's sin? Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Have you ever wondered how God responds to you in your absolute worst moment?  John shows us. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Kate and Sean unpack Jesus' parable of the 10 Virgins in Matthew 25 where he shakes his audience out of their "no's" and "maybe's" and into faith in him. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]

In his parable of the wedding feast Jesus aggressively goes after our stubborn hearts that think we don't need grace.  It's bad news for our self-justifying efforts, but great news for us in our exhaustion of always trying to be better.

Sean and Kate discuss how Jesus quenches the thrist of the woman at the well in her broken relationships. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

John the Baptist represents the whole OT (the law and the prophets) that identified sin, but could not take it away.  When John hears Jesus forgiving sins, he rejoices and says this is the Bridegrrom you've been waiting for. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate discuss how Jesus' first miracle affirms marriage and points to his amazing love for us. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]

Jesus continues to amplify the demand of perfect love by exposing our innate desire for revenge and retaliation when we've been wronged, and he has the audacity to say we have to love our enemies...the people that persecute us, oppress us, abuse us.  He reveals the law demands the impossible from us, but it is exactly what he would do for us. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

In Beauty and the Beast, Cogsworth pefectly describes our problem with oaths especically when it comes to love, "There's the usual things, flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep..."  Sean and Kate continue their dive into Jesus' Sermon on the Mount where he turns his attention to all of our broken promises.  Thankfully, he is the One who has kept every promise for you. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Jesus continues his heart surgery sermon in order to stop every mouth from justifying themselves.  Sean and Kate show how he does this because he loves us and is pushing us to his free grace and forgiveness. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

According to Jesus, every marriage and romantic relationship ever has been made up of adulterers.  He continues his deep work of heart surgery in his Sermon on the Mount pushing us to his forgiveness by addressing lust next.   Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]

Have you ever thought to yourself that your spouse or loved one is a fool, or stupid, or an idiot?   If you have then this episode is for you.  Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: [email protected]

Sean and Kate introduce Jesus' famous Sermon On the Mount in Matthew 5 and help correct very common misinterpretations.  When Jesus preaches he is your heart surgeon...applying God's Word directly where it matters most. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate discuss God breaking into our world and how pastoral God is to Jesus' family.  It's an encouragement to us all with the difficulties and obstacles we face in our own lives. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate continue their discussion of Jesus' family tree in Matthew 1.  It is a greatest hits list of some of the biggest bad marriages that they have covered througout the Old Testament, and it drives home Jesus' mission to forgive, save, and redeem. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

What does the season of Advent have to do with Jesus' family tree?  Sean and Kate dicsuss how Jesus' genealogies in Matthew and Luke reveal God's faithfulness to all the people who are banking on him by faith. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Malachi doesn't pull any punches on the enduring problem of sin for God's people because the Lord is coming.  The Old Testament ends with the fulfillment of all of God's promises in view…the Son of righteousness will rise with healing in His wings. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

The Old Testament ends with a devastating word of conviction against which none of us can stand, and yet Malachi makes sure to remind us of God's enduring love for his people.  Sean and Kate describe the unmerciful act of lessening the law and giving empty affirmation instead of true grace for sinners in Jesus Christ. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate conclude their discussion of Joel highlighting how the end of the world is good news and that God's justice is different from ours...thank God! Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Sean and Kate discuss the promises in Joel of a Bridegroom who is stronger than our brokenness and restores all that the locusts have eaten.

Sean and Kate discuss how the prophet Joel bursts Judah's bubble regarding the Day of the Lord.  God would deal with his people first through the ravaging locusts before dealing their enemies.  Once again revealing God's pattern of death and resurrection in our lives. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate discuss God's passionate steadfsast love for us, his work to turn us back to him, and raise us from the dead.  Hosea points ahead to how Jesus takes the sting of death away from our relationship with God.

Sean and Kate dive deeper into Hosea 10 showing how repentance happens to us.  It is the work of God and not something we do.  He detoxes us from our sin so that we might recognize our need for his saving grace. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Sean and Kate discuss Hosea continuing to diagnose how our hearts are unable to turn upward, so God comes down to us.  He is against our sin but for us in Jesus. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate walk through the hard passages of judgment yet they uncover how God loves us passionately, like a husband loves his wayward bride, and mourns our sin like betrayal in marriage.  He uncovers the fact that we cannot turn to him; he must intervene and save.  That's just where Hosea is going… Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Kate and Sean dicsuss the fallout of when we worship at the altar of sexuality and how the book of Hosea leads to John 4 where Jesus meets the woman at the well.

Sean and Kate discuss Hosea 3 and the love that redeems our wayward hearts. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Kate and Sean discuss how God addresses us in our place of dillusion, where the gods of this age are wrecking havoc in our lives.  He kills the delusion and rescues us in Jesus bringing us home to ourselves and him.

We finally make it to Hosea...one of the main books that inspired this podcast.  Sean and Kate intro Hosea and discuss the bondage of humanity and how God addresses us there. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate discuss the wisdom of Daniel and Jesus as we face a world in upheaval. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Our 100th episode!!! Kate and Sean review God's two words of law and gospel and how the prophet Ezekiel uses them to give an everlasting hope to Judah when they were at their worst. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

In the midst of facing the often devastating consequences of our actions, Jeremiah's lament leads us to true mercy, hope, and love. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

God invades the soap opera of our wayward hearts.  He uses Jeremiah to bring a death to the old and new life where you never expect it. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate jump into Jeremiah and discuss how God aggressively comes after us in our faithlessness. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Happy Easter!  Kate and Sean discuss jealousy vs. envy and a love that makes you sing in Isaiah 54. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Isaiah 5 opens with a song for God's vineyard that at first glance sounds like the original break-up song (eat your heart out, Taylor), but Sean and Kate discuss how it actually points ahead to very needed good news. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayers needs: [email protected]  

The rich getting richer at the expense of the poor, flaunting it for everyone to see, and the misuse and abuse of power...the problems described in Isaiah 3 and 4 sound eerily similar to our society today.  Is there a God strong enough to save them and us? Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate introduce the book of Isaiah, which zeroes in on the tribe of Judah and their rocky relationship with God exposing our unfaithfulness to him and his never ending love for us. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Is there any meaning to life???  Ecclesiastes asks the question and reveals the answer is "no" if this world is all that there is, but "yes" if there is a God who created it and us.  Kate and Sean unpack the good news for married and single people in Ecclesiastes 4. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate dive into Proverbs 31 and show the word of rebuke for men and women alike and the powerful grace of Jesus loving us like an excellent mother and wife.  Dandelion Ministries Support the Show (select Dandelion Ministries from the "Purpose" drop down menu) Send us your questions: [email protected]

Sean and Kate dig into the confusing statements about relationships in Proverbs 30 and reveal the convicting word, which begs the question, "Who can bear our broken love?" Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] 

Kate and Sean march through the marriage proverbs of Proverbs and get very proverbial. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show - select Dandelion Ministries in the "select a purpose" drop down menu. Send us your questions/prayer needs: [email protected] 

Sean and Kate discuss how the Lord exposes the empty promises of temptation and redeems them with his true promises that satisfy your soul. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

With the help of The Lumineers and Love Actually, Sean and Kate discuss Proverbs 5.  A father giving his son clear warning against the temptation toward adultery and directing him back to the wife of his youth.  How does this mirror of Proverbs 5 push us to grace? Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]

Sean and Kate explore the use of the Woman of Wisdom and the Woman of Folly - God exposes our folly and desperate need for wisdom and then promises to give that wisdom to us as a gift. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: [email protected]

Proverbs is not just great advice, it has one destination...to take those who fail to follow it's wisdom to Jesus. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: [email protected]  

Merry Christmas from Bad Marriages in the Bible!!!  Kate and Sean take a look at Luke's accounts of the angel Gabriel visitng Zechariah and Mary, the great news he brings, and why he handles them very differently.   Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

Sean and Kate move into the Psalms.  Psalm 45 paints the picture of amazingly good news that we are the Bride of the Lord's in the ultimate royal wedding.  They discuss how it is the promised fulfillment of all of our deepest desires for safety and love. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]  

We experience the brokenness of this world in a couple of different ways...some of it is a result of our actions (what we have done and what we have not done) and some of it is just the result of living in a fallen world (natural disasters, disease, death).  Sean and Kate share some of their own experience of loss and suffering and how the Lord carried them through. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected] The Center Pure Desire

Real reassurance in the face of grief, bad advice, and an angry spouse. A Grace Disguised by Jerry Sittser Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: [email protected]