From Meth Addict to Musician: Episode 821
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Finding hobbies beyond entertainment, plus the testimony of worship leader Stephen McWhirter, and when you feel burned out from loving others.
Featured musical artist: Aaron Shust
Roundtable: Purposeful Hobbies
A new show to binge, a football score to check, and then some gaming (got to level up!). These pastimes are fun, but in an entertainment-saturated world, how can we balance our go-to media interests with hobbies that are more productive? Our guests open up about their struggles with consuming too much entertainment — and how they’re learning to stretch their minds and skills in other directions.
Culture: Stephen McWhirter’s Journey From Meth to Ministry
Before Stephen McWhirter became known for the song “Come Jesus Come,” he spent a long season openly hating God. Growing up watching his dad, a pastor, abuse Stephen’s mom, Stephen wanted nothing to do with Christians. He turned to drugs, and for over a decade they consumed his life. But that’s where God met him. Hear Stephen tell how God redeemed his broken story and gave him a platform to show others the path to true freedom.
The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
Inbox: Burned Out From All the Takers
Ever feel like you’re giving your time and energy to everyone else, but getting nothing in return? If loving others is leaving you exhausted, counselor Jerry Jones offers hope.
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| 1:10.7 | Well, hey everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson here with you. And we are heading into the end of October. But I always still want to give you a little update of what's coming on in the show. And so we will do that. For our inbox, we have a listener |
| 1:28.0 | who's asking, what is a biblical response when I'm feeling burnt out from loving others? |
| 1:33.7 | Okay, well, hello, universal question. Some of us are so loving. No, okay. One of our counselors |
| 1:40.1 | is going to weigh in, because clearly we need some expert advice on that. And then for our culture |
| 1:45.0 | segment, Stephen McWhorter is a worship leader and writer of songs like the number one, |
| 1:50.4 | Come Jesus Come. He is here to share his powerful testimony of really how God saved him from, one, |
| 1:57.0 | a meth addiction, and two, just kind of bringing him back into the fold and into a relationship |
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