Bad Marriages in the Bible

In ancient Corinth the church had become a hook-up culture.   Sean and Kate discuss how Paul stops the church from being a dating app. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayers needs: sean@dandelionministries.org Ariticle and Book Recommendations on women in leadership in the church: Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender by John Stackhouse https...

Sean and Kate discuss Paul's treatment of sex in marriage and reveal how counter-cultural it was 2000 years ago and continues to be in face of our self first culture. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Don Chaffer sings, "All these promises of freedom in the bondages of sin...I'm praying someone somewhere softly will bring the sadness back in."  Paul does this work with the Corinthian church, who were very confused about what Christian freedom really is. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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 ques...

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 M...

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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...

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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.