Are You Spiritually Mature?: Episode 830
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Reasons to go on a missions trip, plus Kait and JJ Tomlin from the “Heart of Dating” podcast, and how can you measure spiritual maturity?
Featured musical artist: Hollyn
Roundtable: Why Go on a Missions Trip?
Churches and organizations are already advertising opportunities to join them on missions trips next year. Should you give one a try? Our guests have seen firsthand the fruit of giving their time and talent in other cultural contexts, and give helpful insight into what to expect, how to find a good fit, and what missions trips are and aren’t.
Culture: “Heart of Dating” Hosts Kait & JJ Tomlin (Part 1)
You may know Kait Warman as the host of the popular “Heart of Dating” podcast. Now married to JJ Tomlin, Kait is back on our show (with JJ this time) so they can tell their story of meeting, overcoming assumptions and an age difference, preparing for marriage, and now doing ministry together. Heads-up: Next week they’ll answer your dating questions.
Resource Offer: Boundless Guides to Marrying Well
Link to Heart of Dating Website
Inbox: Is My Faith Growing?
Spiritual maturity is essential for Christians, but it’s a process. How do you know if there’s growth in your life, and how do you actively pursue it? Pastor Mark Bates offers advice.
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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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| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. Well, hey everyone, welcome to this week's show, which is the last week of |
| 1:16.7 | 23 and our last show of 2023. |
| 1:21.4 | And so welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.2 | We're excited about what we have coming up. |
| 1:25.8 | And I'll just give you a little preview of what that is. |
| 1:28.4 | First off, for our inbox, we have a listener who's asking, what are some ways to gauge if I'm |
| 1:33.3 | growing in my faith? Well, we have Pastor Mark Bates here who's going to weigh in on that. |
| 1:38.0 | And then for our culture segment, if you have ever listened to the heart of dating podcast, you have heard of Kate and JJ Tomlin. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, they are here to share the fun story of how they met. And then we're actually going to, |
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