Doubts About God: Episode 803
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Wrestling with doubts about your faith, plus Gary Thomas gives book recommendations, and prioritizing time with your family.
Featured musical artist: Abandon
Roundtable: What If I Have Doubts About My Faith?
At some point in your Christian walk, you’ll have questions about God, faith, the Bible and more. While seeking answers is a good thing, what about entertaining doubts? Does God want us to question Him? Is doubting a sign of a lack of faith — or of not being saved? Our guests open up about things they’ve struggled with and what has helped them seek and trust God amid questions, doubts and dark nights of the soul.
Culture: Book Recommendations From Gary Thomas
Summer is here, and with it comes summer reading. Pastor and author Gary Thomas (hello, “The Sacred Search”) is a popular guest who is also an avid reader. If you’re looking for great books to read this summer (or anytime!), be sure to listen in as Gary gives some of his top recommendations across a wide variety of genres.
The Sacred Search: Updated & Revised; When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People
Inbox: Spending More Time With Family
Time is a precious gift — and so is family — so how do you prioritize your loved ones when your days and weeks are jam-packed with work, activities, and other pastimes? Our host 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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| 1:01.8 | Well, hey everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. And as always, I'm going to give you a little preview of what is coming up. Later on for our inbox, we have a listener who's wondering, how do you set better boundaries with the amount of time you spend on activities if you feel like you |
| 1:29.9 | should be spending some more time with your family? So how do you carve out time for them? I'm going to |
| 1:34.9 | weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, Gary Thomas is back with us and he's going to |
| 1:40.0 | discuss a very fun topic. He actually has book recommendations for you. So this is a guy who reads a lot, |
| 1:47.2 | who has written a lot, who knows a lot. He has a weird affinity for 70s music, which we're not |
| 1:53.5 | going to talk about. But his book recommendations are, I will say, pretty on point. So we're |
| 1:59.3 | going to have a fun conversation around that. |
| 2:01.5 | And then here we are, though, for our roundtable. And I want to welcome Georgia, John and Ryan here. |
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