Family Christmas Traditions: Episode 934
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Christmas activities across generations, plus the story behind the YouVersion Bible app, and overcoming the fear of a better option.
Featured musical artist: Covenant Worship
Roundtable: How My Family Celebrates Christmas
Does your family have Christmas traditions that are non-negotiable? Maybe a special dish or dessert someone makes, a movie you watch every year, or a church service you attend together. Passing traditions down through generations makes the holiday season extra special, so our guests get nostalgic in sharing their own traditions and why they choose to prioritize them in the midst of everything else they could be doing.
Culture: Billions of Bibles
If you have the Bible app on your phone, you can thank Bobby Gruenewald. He birthed the idea in an airport, and what landed in Apple’s app store on day one has now tallied over one billion downloads. Bobby joins us for an insider’s look at the story behind the YouVersion app, what it can do (did you know our host, Lisa Anderson, has a reading plan there?), and how it’s reaching the world.
Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are
Read The Dating Manifesto Plan
Inbox: Overcoming FOBO
If you have too many choices and are plagued by indecision, how do you avoid feeling like there’s always a “better” option out there? Counselor Geremy Keeton weighs in.
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| 0:53.2 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, here with you. |
| 0:57.3 | Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas weekend, or Merry, whatever holiday you are listening to the show on if you've stacked a bunch up and aren't listening on the actual day. |
| 1:07.9 | But this is our Christmas episode. We're very excited to have you join us. So let me give |
| 1:12.8 | you a little preview of what is coming up later on in the show. We have talked a lot about |
| 1:17.9 | FOMO, but what about Fobo? That stands for fear of a better option. And counselor Jeremy Keaton |
| 1:25.0 | is going to weigh in on how you can overcome that. Like, what even is it? Why does it matter? |
| 1:30.5 | All right. Then for our culture segment, do you have the Bible app on your phone? If you're one of the |
| 1:35.8 | billion, now over a billion people who have downloaded it, you're going to want to hear this interview |
| 1:41.6 | because we have the privilege of talking to Bobby Grunwald, who is the founder of that app. He's going to tell the story of how he even got the |
| 1:49.8 | idea for it. And this was back in like olden times, y'all, when the smartphones were just out. So this is |
| 1:56.8 | pretty crazy. He's a very entrepreneurial guy and a really fun and inspiring interview. |
| 2:02.9 | All right, here we are for our roundtable. And because it is the Christmas season, we thought |
| 2:07.8 | we would have a conversation around holiday traditions, but specifically as they apply to |
| 2:14.1 | different generations. And do you have traditions around the holidays now? And because we're |
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