Gym Intimidation: Episode 904
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Vacation Bible School memories and ministry, plus overcoming your fear of gyms, and when your family has strong opinions about your date.
Featured musical artist: Nathan Tasker
Roundtable: We Love Vacation Bible School!
For many of us, Vacation Bible School is a fond childhood memory of studying Scripture, singing songs, meeting new friends and playing games. Some even remember VBS as the place they first understood the gospel and accepted Jesus as their Savior. As young adults, it’s now a great opportunity for us to volunteer and invest in kids. Our panel will cover fun memories from VBS and how you can love and disciple children this summer — and have fun in the process!
Culture: Work Out Your Gym Fears
What’s your biggest fear about going to the gym? Using equipment? Feeling out of shape compared to others? Just getting started? Lisa’s personal trainer, Jeff Wilson, has your back. He demystifies the process of crafting a workout, understanding gym etiquette, setting realistic expectations, and killing comparison. If you’re ready to get in shape for the summer, be sure to listen in.
Fit God’s Way: Your Bible-Based Guide to Food, Fitness, and Wholeness
Inbox: Does My Family Need to Like My Boyfriend?
Our listener is on edge about bringing her boyfriend home to meet her family. It begs the question: Should your family approve of the person you’re dating? Counselor and marriage expert Erin Smalley weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless show. |
| 0:12.2 | All right, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.3 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:17.7 | We are finishing out the month of May, which is very sad. You know, I always have to |
| 0:22.8 | give these time date commentaries before the show begins, but that's okay. We actually have a |
| 0:27.3 | great show coming up later on for our inbox. How much should your immediate family approve of your |
| 0:33.5 | significant other before you get married? And what level of conversation should you enter into |
| 0:38.6 | about that. Well, Aaron Smalley is going to weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, |
| 0:43.7 | Jeff Wilson, he was my personal trainer for a longish season. And I thought I would bring him in to |
| 0:50.1 | talk about some of the fears that people have around joining a gym or going to the gym or just |
| 0:55.7 | working out in general. And so he's going to share with us really some of his best tips and |
| 1:00.9 | tactics for getting over those fears. All right, here we are for our roundtable. And because we are |
| 1:06.6 | officially three weeks away from summer, but hopefully we're all getting some good weather and we |
| 1:11.6 | feel summerish anyway. We thought it would be awesome to talk about summer vacation Bible school |
| 1:19.1 | slash kids camp slash kids program memories, as well as maybe just a little hurrah around what does that look like for you now? |
| 1:30.6 | And is there value in volunteering as an adult with kids? What are the transfers of this? |
| 1:37.9 | What is the benefit of it? And so I have got Dakota. I have Emerson and Bree here. Hey, you guys. |
| 1:43.5 | Hey, Lisa. Hey, good to have you here. |
| 1:46.4 | So first off, what would you say, what are some classic and very vivid memories for you of |
| 1:52.6 | going to a vacation Bible school as a kid and just things that really stick in your mind as maybe, |
| 1:58.4 | I mean, I don't know, there are probably some of us that got beat up |
| 2:01.5 | and whatever. It's not all just utopian, I'm sure. But I have some pretty positive memories. How about |
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