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.

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

The Quarrelsome Woman vs. the Cruel Man 02/12/2025

The Quarrelsome Woman vs. the Cruel Man Kate and Sean march through the marriage proverbs of Proverbs and get very proverbial. select Dandelion Ministries in the "select a purpose" drop down menu. Send us your questions/prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35260520

She'll Eat You Alive - Proverbs 6-8 01/31/2025

She'll Eat You Alive - Proverbs 6-8 Sean and Kate discuss how the Lord exposes the empty promises of temptation and redeems them with his true promises that satisfy your soul. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/35099150

The Lumineers, Love Actually, and Proverbs 5 01/24/2025

The Lumineers, Love Actually, and Proverbs 5 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? Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/34994455

The Heart Surgery of Proverbs - Proverbs 2 01/13/2025

The Heart Surgery of Proverbs - Proverbs 2 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 /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/34806920

Demand and Grace in Proverbs 01/08/2025

Demand and Grace in Proverbs Proverbs is not just great advice, it has one destination...to take those who fail to follow it's wisdom to Jesus. by Jonathan Haidt Send us your questions/prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/34777420

Christmas Edition 2024 - Luke 1 12/18/2024

Christmas Edition 2024 - Luke 1 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/34507340

Your Royal Wedding - Psalm 45 12/03/2024

Your Royal Wedding - Psalm 45 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/34271385

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