When God Asks "What Did I Do Wrong?"

About this episode

This sermon explores the transformation of relationships through the lens of scripture, focusing on the metaphor of marriage and the invitation to acknowledge one's direction during Lent.

What do you do when you've hardened — when grief, exhaustion, or the weight of the world has calcified something in you that used to feel things? This sermon sits with one of the oldest questions in the Bible: what happens to a relationship when one person walks away, and the other won't stop asking why? Drawing from the book of Jeremiah and a surprising reread of Ephesians, Anthony Parrott traces how a marriage metaphor — messy, painful, and sometimes deeply uncomfortable — slowly transforms across scripture. The God who accuses becomes the God who absorbs the cost. And the invitation to return isn't "fix what you broke." It's just: turn around and acknowledge it. Lent isn't a dramatic moment. It's a daily practice of noticing which direction you're facing — and being willing to shift.

People in this episode

Hosts: Anthony Parrott, Jeremiah

Topics covered

• grief
• exhaustion
• relationships
• scripture
• Lent

Keywords

• Jeremiah
• Ephesians
• marriage metaphor
• God
• acknowledgment

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Bible, Ephesians

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