Bad Marriages in the Bible

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

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 th...

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: sean@dandelionministries.org  

God holding onto you when you can't hold onto anything.   Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: sean@dandelionministries.org  

The tables turn on Haman, and his plans for Jewish genocide and murder end with him hung on his own gallows.  Sean and Kate unpack how God intervened through the brave and shrewd Esther to save his people and exact revenge on their enemies. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Arrogance, a centuries long feud, and the threat of genocide set the stage for the dramatic turn in Esther.  Sean and Kate discuss Esther's bravery in the face of almost certain death, the divine hand leading her, and how she foreshadows the amazing grace of Jesus for his people. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Did you know the show the Bachelor began 2500 years ago?  The first episode took place in ancient Persia and is recorded for us in the book of Esther.  Sean and Kate discuss how God graciously works his plan of redemption through the brokenness of this world...like beauty contests. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Control and objectification never make for a healthy marriage.  Sean and Kate jump into the book of Esther and discuss the the bravery of a wife standing up to an abusive husband and the good news of God who sees and cares for the oppressed. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Nehemiah 8 gives us the better word than Ezra - the good news that it doesn't all rest on your shoulders…that you are forgiven, and that enables forgiveness in your relationships, especially marriage. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

The book of Ezra exposes the bad marriages of the leaders of Israel and their collateral damage and leaves us looking for a better word. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

What do Toronto, Sunnybrook Stables, Pittsburgh, and Your Mom's House have to do with building intimacy. Song of Songs 8 describes intimacy by being known, forgiven, and loved.   We give examples from our recent trip of walking down Kate's memory lane in Toronto.

What do Queen Jezebel, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd have to say about the idols in our lives?   What does Jesus do about them? - 2 Kings 9 Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Sean and Kate look at 2 Kings 4 where Elisha helps the recent widow with her big financial problems and how this points ahead to God's provision for us in Jesus. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Sean and Kate discuss the unholy power couple Ahab and Jezebel in 1 Kings 17-21 and their run in with Elijah.   We see God turning his people's hearts back from the idols that were killing them. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

As the book ends praising the bride for her virginity, Sean and Kate pull out the forgiving and redeeming love of Jesus, which makes marriage into a safe place for honesty, healing, passion for two broken people. - Song of Solomon 8:8-14 Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: sean@dandelionministries.org  

What do modern art and alternative rock have to do with the Song of Solomon?  Listen to Sean and Kate to find out.  They discuss the beauty of vulnerability and dependence and how it leads to greater intimacy and passion. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Love through the joy and pain of sharing a lifetime together, which are like the choice fruits, new as well as old.  Song of Solomon 7:11-8:4 Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

After reassurance and reconcliation, the bride and the bridegroom have great make up sex.   Sean and Kate unpack the gospel in the passage and what redeemed deisre looks like.

Friendship is the bedrock of initimacy - problems in the bedroom get sorted out in the living room.   God's grace never runs out and never runs away. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Conflicts are inevitable even with couples that really love each other and are full of passion for one another as this book shows.   In Jesus this conflict will lead to forgiveness and a stronger bond between them. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

Sean and Kate celebrate the climax of the book as the Bride and Groom consumate their marriage in an outpouring of mutal love, poetry, and affirmation.  They pull out the gospel promise of restoration for all people everywhere using: John 4, Ezekiel 36:35-36, Isaiah 51:3, and 58:11. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: sean@dandelionministries.org  

In Song of Solomon 4 we have an up close view of the wedding day.  Admiration leads to vulnerabilty...we are all desperate to be truly seen and wanted and to feel safe.  Sex belongs in this context. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org  

You are extravagantly loved and highly protected.  Listen to Sean and Kate unpack Song of Solomon 3:6-11 to find out how this wedding celebration applies to you. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: sean@dandelionministrie.org  

Masters of the Air, The Avett Borthers, Nazareth, and attachment theory help Kate and Sean unpack the good kind of pain in the love between the bride and groom. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions: sean@dandelionminitries.org  

Young stags, the Lego Movie, Lionel Ritchie, deaf and blind lost cats all help us to see the safety and security of belonging to the Lord and one another in marriage…and the good times it brings all night long. Dandelion Ministries Support the Show Send us your questions/prayer needs: sean@dandelionministries.org