Family and the Holidays: Episode 725
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Enjoying your family at Christmas, plus a Q&A with Jonathan Pokluda, and is it wrong to be attracted to others when you’re engaged?
Featured musical artist: Daniel Bashta ( https://www.danielbashta.com/welcome )
Roundtable: Making Peace With Family at Christmas
While getting together with your family for the holidays can be fun, it can also be challenging. What do you do when your family members don’t get along, or you’re the only Christian around the dinner table? Our guests discuss ways they’ve learned to compromise, set expectations, and enjoy quality time with their families, even when it’s not easy.
Culture: Q&A With Pastor Jonathan Pokluda
As a pastor and former leader of The Porch, Jonathan “JP” Pokluda has a lot of experience helping young adults. In this fun and thought-provoking conversation, we ask him a variety of questions on topics like: where young adults need to mature, how to develop spiritual rhythms in life, the importance of church, and how he navigates the temptation to be a “celebrity” pastor.
Inbox: A Wandering Eye?
Her fiancé recently proposed after three years of dating. Before their engagement, she only had eyes for him. However, since getting engaged, she’s noticing other guys and is tempted to compare them to her man. Is this normal or sinful? Counselor Joannie DeBrito weighs in.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 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. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 1:15.1 | And a very merry Christmas to you, whether you are listening to this as the show comes out, which is just a couple days before Christmas or during Christmas weekend. |
| 1:24.5 | We want to wish you a very Merry Christmas from us here at Boundless, and I hope you're |
| 1:29.0 | getting some good downtime, time with some family and friends, and looking hopefully towards the new year. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, here is what's coming up on the show. Later on for our inbox, we have a listener who recently |
| 1:41.0 | got engaged, but she's starting to find other guys attractive. |
| 1:44.8 | Is this a reason to be concerned or not? |
| 1:47.1 | One of our counselors is going to weigh in. |
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