Bad Marriages in the Bible

The Bad Marriages in the Bible podcast unpacks the typically messy relationships in the Bible to show the power of forgiveness, reconciliation, and redemption...and tackles questions from listeners. Featuring the Revs Sean and Kate Norris, founders of Dandelion Ministries on Long Island, NY.

Anger - Matthew 5:21-26 01/29/2026

Anger - Matthew 5:21-26 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. Send us your questions: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39923535

Heart Surgery - Matthew 5 01/23/2026

Heart Surgery - Matthew 5 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39856775

Alien Invasion - Matthew 1 and Luke 1 01/06/2026

Alien Invasion - Matthew 1 and Luke 1 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. Send us your questions: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39629055

Skeletons in Jesus' Family Closet - Matthew 1 12/19/2025

Skeletons in Jesus' Family Closet - Matthew 1 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39467830

When Jesus Looked Up His Family on Ancestry.com - Matthew 1 and Luke 3 12/11/2025

When Jesus Looked Up His Family on Ancestry.com - Matthew 1 and Luke 3 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39368990

Out With A Bang - Part 2 - Malachi 3 and 4 12/01/2025

Out With A Bang - Part 2 - Malachi 3 and 4 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39221940

Out With A Bang - Part 1 - Malachi 1 and 2 11/25/2025

Out With A Bang - Part 1 - Malachi 1 and 2 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/39167355

God Is Your Defender - Joel 3 11/05/2025

God Is Your Defender - Joel 3 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! Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38926825

Restoring the Years the Locusts Have Eaten - Joel 2 10/29/2025

Restoring the Years the Locusts Have Eaten - Joel 2 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. /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38825025

The Day of the Lord - Joel 1-2 10/08/2025

The Day of the Lord - Joel 1-2 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38515565

The Love that Transforms a Bad Marriage - Hosea 11-14 10/03/2025

The Love that Transforms a Bad Marriage - Hosea 11-14 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. /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38456730

Being Repented - How God Takes Us Through Detox - Hosea 10 09/23/2025

Being Repented - How God Takes Us Through Detox - Hosea 10 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38328610

A God Who Can Do Something About It - Hosea 8-10 09/10/2025

A God Who Can Do Something About It - Hosea 8-10 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38158700

Mercy Not Sacrifice - Hosea 4-7 09/05/2025

Mercy Not Sacrifice - Hosea 4-7 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… Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/38101420

Gomer and You - Hosea 4 08/19/2025

Gomer and You - Hosea 4 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. /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/37876800

Better than Raisin Cakes and Chocolate Chips - Hosea 3 08/12/2025

Better than Raisin Cakes and Chocolate Chips - Hosea 3 Sean and Kate discuss Hosea 3 and the love that redeems our wayward hearts. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/37778470

Hope in A Place of Trouble - Hosea 2 07/15/2025

Hope in A Place of Trouble - Hosea 2 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. /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/37415545

Our Bad Marriage - Intro to Hosea 07/09/2025

Our Bad Marriage - Intro to Hosea 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/37349330

Beyond the Headlines - the Book of Daniel 07/01/2025

Beyond the Headlines - the Book of Daniel Sean and Kate discuss the wisdom of Daniel and Jesus as we face a world in upheaval. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/37230370

Facing the Music - Ezekiel 16 - Our 100th Episode!!! 06/10/2025

Facing the Music - Ezekiel 16 - Our 100th Episode!!! 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/36894105

Lamentations: Being Repented 06/05/2025

Lamentations: Being Repented In the midst of facing the often devastating consequences of our actions, Jeremiah’s lament leads us to true mercy, hope, and love. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/36875005

Days of Our Lives...in Jerusalem - Jeremiah 16 and 29 05/28/2025

Days of Our Lives...in Jerusalem - Jeremiah 16 and 29 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/36758565

Love, War, and Lucky Charms - Jeremiah 3 05/09/2025

Love, War, and Lucky Charms - Jeremiah 3 Sean and Kate jump into Jeremiah and discuss how God aggressively comes after us in our faithlessness. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/36509025

A Resurrected Marriage - Isaiah 54 04/22/2025

A Resurrected Marriage - Isaiah 54 Happy Easter! Kate and Sean discuss jealousy vs. envy and a love that makes you sing in Isaiah 54. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/36267800

Bad Grapes - Isaiah 5 04/07/2025

Bad Grapes - Isaiah 5 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. Send us your questions and/or prayers needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/36042045

The Branch, the Bride, and Rebirth - Isaiah 3:15-4:6 03/24/2025

The Branch, the Bride, and Rebirth - Isaiah 3:15-4:6 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? Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35839695

Our Bad Marriage with God - Isaiah 1 and 2 03/20/2025

Our Bad Marriage with God - Isaiah 1 and 2 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35787400

A Threefold Cord - Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 03/11/2025

A Threefold Cord - Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35638450

The Truth Behind the Domestic Goddess - Proverbs 31 03/03/2025

The Truth Behind the Domestic Goddess - Proverbs 31 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. (select Dandelion Ministries from the "Purpose" drop down menu) Send us your questions: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35512910

Who Can Bear It? - Proverbs 30:18-23 02/26/2025

Who Can Bear It? - Proverbs 30:18-23 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?" Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35437170

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