A Healthy Kind of Humor: Episode 714
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Using humor appropriately, plus a conversation on humility, and when you're interested in one guy but another asks you out.
Featured musical artist: Ellie Holcomb
Roundtable: Using Humor Appropriately
There's nothing like laughing with your friends and family. A good punchline, a quick-witted response, and before you know it the room is roaring with laughter. But admittedly, crude joking and cheap low blows are easy to come by. As Christians, what kind of humor is appropriate and what is not? Our guests share the types of humor they appreciate, how they balance the funny and the serious, and what it looks like to tell jokes without tearing others down.
Culture: The Truth About Our Bad Selves
We hear it all the time: "He's good at heart." "I'm perfect just the way I am." But while it sounds nice, we know it's not really true. In reality, all of us think we're better than we really are, and comparing ourselves to others helps us believe it. Author and radio personality Brant Hansen calls it a humility problem, describing the ways he's struggled with pride and how God's Word points us to put others above ourselves.
Inbox: Waiting in the Wings
She really likes a guy and wants to get to know him. However, a different guy just asked her out on a date. Should she hope the guy she likes will like her back, or go out with the man who's already offered? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
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| 1:07.5 | Well, hey everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. Lisa Anderson here with you and a little preview of what's coming up later on. |
| 1:14.8 | For our inbox, we have a listener who wants to know how should a girl respond when she's |
| 1:20.5 | interested in one guy, but then a different guy asks her out. |
| 1:24.6 | So I guess that's a good problem to have, but it still can be a conundrum, so I will |
| 1:28.0 | offer some thoughts on that. And then for our culture segment, author and radio personality, |
| 1:33.2 | Brant Hanson is here to discuss really based on his book, how we can walk in humility, and the book |
| 1:40.6 | title is The Truth About Us. And so you won't want to miss that because, of course, |
| 1:45.1 | in signature brand style, you know it'll be kind of fun, but also pretty wise. So good stuff there. |
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