Healthy Confrontation: Episode 717
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
When you should confront someone, plus a psychiatrist on the topic of suicide, and taking initiative vs. letting God run your love life.
Featured musical artist: Danen Kane
Roundtable: Christians and Confrontation
Conflict. It happens, though most of us avoid it when we can. But sticking our heads in the proverbial sand won't accomplish anything. Instead, conflict and confrontation are a part of life, and the Bible has wisdom for how Christians should approach disagreements and even sin in one another. Our guests discuss conflicts and confrontations they've encountered and how they navigated hard conversations with grace. This discussion is a necessary primer for anyone who wants to mature in their relationships.
Culture: An Honest Look at Suicide
Suicide statistics are at an all-time high worldwide. Most of us know of someone – perhaps even a pastor or Christian leader – who has taken their own life, leaving us to wonder: Why is this happening? Is there anything we can do? How can we recognize acute depression and suicidal thoughts in ourselves and our friends, and what’s the best course of action when we do? Psychiatrist Karl Benzio gives us tools to rightly understand and address the warning signs of suicide.
Inbox: Trying Hard and Trusting God
He's trying to be more intentional about meeting girls and dating, but could he be trying too hard? Is there a balance between taking initiative in dating versus letting God be in charge? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
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| 1:01.9 | Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson here with you, |
| 1:14.6 | as I often like to do. A little preview of what's coming up. For our inbox, we have a guy who's |
| 1:19.4 | wondering, how do you find balance between taking initiative in a dating relationship versus |
| 1:24.8 | letting God handle it for you? Well, that is an important question. It's one that |
| 1:29.2 | we actually kind of get variations of pretty often here at Boundless. So I'm going to weigh in |
| 1:33.8 | with some advice on that. And then for our culture segment, Dr. Carl Benzio, a psychiatrist, |
| 1:39.7 | is here to talk about the difficult subject of suicide. Most of us know someone who's been directly |
| 1:46.2 | impacted by it because of the suicide of a friend, a loved one, someone that we knew at school or |
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