Build Your Confidence: Episode 885
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What confidence looks like, plus a young adult’s journey with chronic pain, and how to honor God in everyday life.
Featured musical artist: Mosaic MSC
Roundtable: Confident Relationships, Work and Identity
What is confidence, and how do you get it? It’s probably more than Julie Andrews dancing around a Salzburg fountain and chirping, “I have confidence!” Yet it seems that some elements of confidence can be learned, if not merely wished into existence. Our guests share tips for being more confident on the job, in relationships, and in understanding who you are.
Culture: Young Adults and Chronic Pain
Olivia Feller started having weird symptoms in her teens. Doctor after doctor failed to provide a diagnosis, cure, or even relief, and eventually Olivia’s pain became debilitating. College was a blur of medical appointments, skipped classes and missed milestones and events. Olivia, still on her journey, learned to face pain and chronic illness head-on as she turned to the only one with the answers — God himself. She shares what worked, what didn’t work, and how God, friends and others were her strength when she had none.
Hold Hope: Encouragement for Christians with Chronic Pain
Inbox: How Do I Honor God?
What does it mean to “honor God” and others in the life we live and the choices we make? It’s a big question that one of our counselors sheds some light on.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless show. Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. And we are now in the middle of January. I am very excited about that because the days are |
| 0:25.0 | getting longer, you know, my issues with that in the fall. And I get very grumpy. And so here we are |
| 0:31.1 | 2025. We're excited about it. A little bit of what is coming up on the show a little bit later. First of all, later on for our |
| 0:39.3 | inbox, how does someone honor God in all facets of life? What does it mean to honor God? And then also, |
| 0:47.0 | we're told to honor our spouse or significant other, honor other people. So what are the particulars |
| 0:53.0 | of that? One of our counselors, Glenn |
| 0:54.7 | Lutchins, is going to weigh in with some good thoughts. For our culture segment, Olivia Feller is a |
| 1:00.2 | friend of ours here at Boundless. She used to be an intern at Focus on the Family and she has written for |
| 1:05.7 | boundless. Well, she is joining us today to share about her journey of walking through |
| 1:10.6 | chronic pain as a 20-something. |
| 1:13.4 | She has written a book about it called Hold Hope. |
| 1:16.1 | And so we're going to talk about what God has been teaching her through this lengthier than she's wanted it season. |
| 1:23.0 | So great insights from Olivia. |
| 1:25.4 | Okay, here we are for our roundtable. |
| 1:27.9 | And we're really talking, I have John here at the at the table with me. |
| 1:31.4 | Hey, John. |
| 1:32.0 | Hello. |
| 1:32.6 | We're really talking now in the new year about a lot of great, I think people are |
| 1:37.0 | assumptive about this where we talk about stuff about like, you know, chasing after growth |
| 1:41.7 | and what it looks like to look at a new year freshly and stuff |
| 1:45.5 | and a lot of great guests and great topics. So today is kind of an example of that because we |
| 1:51.1 | want to talk about confidence and we're going to apply it really to a few different areas of |
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