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.

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: [email protected] /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

Going Through Hell Together 11/27/2024

Going Through Hell Together 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/34181830

Comfort in Catastrophe - Job part 2 11/07/2024

Comfort in Catastrophe - Job part 2 Real reassurance in the face of grief, bad advice, and an angry spouse. by Jerry Sittser Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33830382

Comfort in Catastrophe - Job 1 and 2 10/31/2024

Comfort in Catastrophe - Job 1 and 2 God holding onto you when you can't hold onto anything. Send us your questions: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33708427

"Swingin' On the Gallows Pole" - Esther 5-10 10/15/2024

"Swingin' On the Gallows Pole" - Esther 5-10 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33467257

For Such A Time As This - Esther 3-4 10/08/2024

For Such A Time As This - Esther 3-4 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33378902

The Bachelor Begins - Esther 2 10/01/2024

The Bachelor Begins - Esther 2 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33285097

A King Denied - Esther 1 09/26/2024

A King Denied - Esther 1 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33219977

Better Than Ezra - Part 2 09/12/2024

Better Than Ezra - Part 2 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. Send us your questions/prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/33022222

Better Than Ezra - part 1 09/05/2024

Better Than Ezra - part 1 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. Send us your questions/prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/32918797

Your Mom's House 08/29/2024

Your Mom's House 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. /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/32796077

God Fights for You 07/25/2024

God Fights for You 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 Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/32295137

Marriage and Money - The Widow's Oil 07/15/2024

Marriage and Money - The Widow's Oil 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. Send us your questions and/or prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/32145782

The Power Couple 07/01/2024

The Power Couple 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. Send us your questions/prayer needs: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/31960877

Song of Solomon - the Grand Finale 06/17/2024

Song of Solomon - the Grand Finale 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 Send us your questions: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/31765273

Leaning On Your Beloved 06/13/2024

Leaning On Your Beloved 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. Send us your questions: /episode/index/show/4ad41826-f70e-4ed4-8476-76c9a55cafc3/id/31726552

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