Cheap but Meaningful Christmas Gifts: Episode 776
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Christmas shopping on a budget, plus blogger Tim Challies on processing grief, and appropriate age gaps for dating.
Featured musical artist: Ecclesia
Roundtable: A Budget-Conscious Christmas
Are you still trying to finish your Christmas shopping? You’re not the only one. And with inflation and other financial pressures, gift-giving this year can seem more of a burden than a blessing. But what if truly meaningful gifts aren’t always the most expensive ones? Our panel shares ideas for fun and creative Christmas gifts and activities that will still leave money in your pocket.
Culture: Grief When You Least Expect It (Part 1)
On November 3, 2020, Tim Challies got the call every parent dreads — his 20-year-old son, Nick, had died unexpectedly while away at college. As the grief and shock hit and then continued in waves, Tim found incredible comfort in grieving through the seasons of the following year by writing out his thoughts and emotions. In part one of our conversation, Tim talks about the early days after receiving the tragic news, how he wrestled with God’s sovereignty amid the intense grief, and what helped him get through the dark days of that fall and winter.
Inbox: Appropriate Age Gaps in Dating
Many of us know a couple where the man and woman are several years (or more) apart in age. At what point does an age gap become too weird or problematic? Is there a formula for figuring out how to view age differences for relational success? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
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4 Things to Consider When Dating With an Age Difference
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
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| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
| 0:45.1 | gifts even further. So boundless.org slash donate, you have the opportunity to take us into the new |
| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:01.8 | Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, here with you. And just a reminder to you listeners that we are still taking your Christmas cards if you want to send them into us. We have received cards already that are so amazing. We have loved reading them. One guy actually like recreated our |
| 1:30.2 | logo and wrote a whole card about it and that was super great to see. Send in your Christmas card. |
| 1:36.5 | If you send us a Christmas card here at Boundless, we will pray you by name into the new year. |
| 1:41.8 | So you can send that to 8065 Explorer Drive, Colorado Springs, |
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| 1:58.0 | we have a guy who's wanting to know what the appropriate age ranges are for |
| 2:02.6 | people who are dating. We mostly, you know, many of us know a couple where there's a significant |
| 2:07.3 | age gap and what is an okay gap to have. Well, I'm going to offer some insights. And then for our |
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