Get Smarter This Year: Episode 834
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Fun ideas for boosting your intelligence, plus Alisa Childers tackles more sneaky cultural lies, and is dating multiple people at once OK?
Featured musical artist: John Waller
Roundtable: Boost Your Intelligence
You don’t need to spend all your free time scrolling social media or binging Netflix. What if you resolved to improve your intelligence in 2024? Our guests share what areas they want to become more competent in this year and why. They’ll also discuss how they plan to make it happen without becoming performance-driven or arrogant.
Culture: The World Is Lying to Us (Part 2)
Have you heard someone reference “their truth”? It may sound harmless — even affirming — but it’s a concept that is founded on a lie. Sadly, numerous untruths have infiltrated our cultural vocabulary, and sometimes even Christians don’t recognize how deceptive they are. Christian apologist and author Alisa Childers joins us for a candid conversation around unbiblical statements, platitudes and promises that sound good but are in fact dangerous. In part two she addresses the myths of “God just wants you to be happy,” “You shouldn’t judge,” and “It’s all about love.”
Inbox: Is Dating Multiple People OK?
Is it acceptable to date multiple people at the same time? 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. |
| 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. |
| 1:00.1 | Boundless Show. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, folks, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 1:14.6 | This is Lisa Anderson with you. |
| 1:16.9 | And so, you know, I've said it several times, but still happy New Year. |
| 1:20.3 | In fact, I was just telling our team here that I think I'm putting New Year's as one of my favorite holidays. |
| 1:24.9 | So it might be a little switch for me for 2024. So we'll talk about |
| 1:29.3 | that maybe sometime in the future. In the meantime, let's talk about what's actually on the show |
| 1:33.4 | today. So later on for our inbox, we have a listener who wants to know, is it wrong to go on |
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