Bad Marriages in the Bible

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandeli...

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org 

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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:  sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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: sean@dandelionministries.org

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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: sean@dandelionministries.org