Advice From Seasoned Saints: Episode 927
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Boomers dispense advice for young adults, plus navigating sexual desire as a single in your 30s, and the hallmarks of a thriving faith.
Featured musical artist: David Dunn
Roundtable: Life Lessons for Young Adults
What would Christians in their 60s and 70s tell their younger selves? We find out this week as our guests dispense some of their best life advice and perspectives. From spiritual rhythms to life hacks to navigating regrets to staying hopeful, listen in and get wisdom from those who’ve gone before you.
Culture: Sexual Integrity for the 30-Something
Counselor M.T. Wilson was single until age 38. He has great advice for navigating the tricky decade of your 30s as a Christian who wants to honor God with your sexuality. From stewarding sexual desire to understanding intimacy, longing for companionship, and struggling to trust God with His timing, M.T. shares lessons from his own journey as well as his expertise as a relationship and sex therapist.
Surrendered Sexuality: How Knowing Jesus Changes … Everything
Inbox: Is Your Faith a Blessing or a Bore?
Why do some people seem to have a thriving relationship with God, while others struggle? Pastor Mark Bates weighs in.
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| 0:56.1 | Thank you. We are squarely in November. We are grateful for that. The days keep getting darker for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. We are not excited about that, but you know you hear me gripe about that all the time. What I am not griping |
| 1:01.3 | about is what is on today's show because it is fantastic. So first off, for our inbox later on, |
| 1:07.5 | we are going to have the question answered, what is the difference between someone who |
| 1:12.2 | actually has a vibrant relationship with God and someone who maybe doesn't seem to have that? |
| 1:17.6 | Does it matter? Is this a sliding scale? Does God care? What are we doing here? One of our |
| 1:22.7 | pastor friends, Mark Bates, is here to weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, M.T. Wilson is here. |
| 1:29.6 | He is part of our focus counseling team, and he didn't get married until his late 30s. |
| 1:35.5 | And as a counselor and from his own experience, he is going to talk about how to deal with sexual desire as an older single who's made it through their 20s, probably into |
| 1:45.5 | their 30s, and beyond, he has a lot of great advice for us. So, and now here we are for our |
| 1:52.3 | roundtable. We have assembled another great group of folks. We have got Diane, Loanne, and Jerry |
| 1:57.8 | here. Hey, everyone. Hi. Good to have you to talk about kind of life lessons that they would give their younger selves. |
| 2:06.4 | So looking back, and I know all of you are like just barely 30 now, so it's going to, you don't have to look back far. |
| 2:13.3 | No. |
| 2:14.4 | So 30 plus 30. |
| 2:17.3 | You'll never know. |
| 2:19.0 | Yeah, right. |
| 2:20.0 | No, actually it is. |
| 2:21.7 | Yeah, darn it. |
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