Hope for Home Ownership: Episode 907
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ordering your life, plus how to build a relationship with your future in-laws, and should you wait until you’re married to buy a house?
Featured musical artist: Hollyn
Roundtable: Get Your Priorities Straight
We’re all guilty of procrastination, wasting time, and over-cluttering our schedules. As adults, we know we should do better, but where do we start? How can we prioritize our lives to make time for what’s really important? Our guests share their own struggles and strategies for how to find time for God, family, friendships and responsibilities, while also making space for rest and fun.
Culture: Know Your Future In-Laws
A relationship with your in-laws can be wonderful, or it can be difficult and even complicated. Finding an appropriate relational balance is tricky, as is establishing boundaries and closeness. Most of these efforts start during dating and engagement, so what does it look like to pursue a healthy relationship on the in-law front? Relationship experts Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley explain how they navigated in-law relationships, what challenges they experienced, how they had hard conversations, and what loving an extended family looks like.
Ready to Wed: 12 Ways to Start a Marriage You’ll Love
Read Greg’s Article: 12 Questions Every Father Should Ask His Future Son-In-Law
Link to Article: Myths and Realities of Extended Families
Inbox: Should I Be Married to Buy a House?
Buying a house is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make. Should you wait until marriage to take the plunge? Recent homebuyer Ryan Wall weighs in.
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| 0:30.0 | Bowenless shows. Well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:45.3 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:48.1 | And I do want to thank you for all of the amazing birthday wishes. |
| 0:53.1 | Thank you so much for being part of my special day |
| 0:55.6 | as I celebrated year 27. And, no, I just feel like I'm just going to keep saying that and let people |
| 1:02.1 | guess where I am squarely in my 20s, y'all. But also, one of our guests today also has just |
| 1:08.4 | gotten married. So that's exciting as well. But before we get |
| 1:11.8 | into all this business about our personal lives, let me tell you what's coming up later on in the show. |
| 1:16.4 | For our inbox, we have a listener who is wondering, should I wait until I get married to buy a house |
| 1:21.6 | or purchase one now? We're going to answer that question a little bit later. And then for our |
| 1:26.4 | culture segment, our friends |
| 1:27.6 | Greg and Aaron Smalley are here to offer tips on getting to know your future in-laws. So you won't |
| 1:33.2 | want to miss it. Okay, here we are for our roundtable. And this is a fun topic that we're going to talk about |
| 1:40.9 | in light of not only my birthday having just happened, |
| 1:44.8 | which is a very momentous event, but also the fact that tomorrow, now some of you might |
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