Humility in Marriage: Episode 755
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Qualities of a humble spouse, plus dating someone who confesses a sin pattern, and how to respond when your friend has a porn problem.
Featured musical artist: Kerrie Roberts ( https://kerrieroberts.com/ )
Roundtable: The Humble Spouse
Humility is to relationships what gasoline is to cars; without it, a relationship can’t move forward. In marriage, humility is especially important since spouses are in covenant together as one flesh. Our guests are honest about where they were on the humility scale going into marriage, and how they’ve learned to be more humble since. They’ll also give insights on how to spot humility in the people you date.
Culture: Spotting a Sin Stronghold in Dating
All of us have hang-ups and sins we must address. But what do you do when the person you are dating confesses a serious sin pattern like alcoholism, drugs or porn? Is there a way to balance grace with truth, and at what point do you need to cut off the relationship? Christine Snyder tells her story of facing an unwanted divorce due to her husband’s addictions and unfaithfulness, while counselor Glenn Lutjens provides expert advice on when to pull the plug on a problematic dating relationship.
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Inbox: Does Everyone Have a Porn Problem?
She’s known more than a few friends in her Christian community who’ve confessed a problem with pornography. She’s frustrated that porn seems to be “winning” in the hearts and minds of those around her, and doesn't know what to do. When the next friend confesses, what should be her response? Counselor Geremy Keeton weighs in.
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| 1:18.9 | Later on for our inbox, we have a listener who's frustrated by the amount of people that she knows who are struggling with porn addiction and wants to know how can she respond |
| 1:29.4 | when someone confesses a struggle to her. Well, one of our counselors, Jeremy Keaton, is going to weigh in on |
| 1:35.1 | that. And then for our culture segment, counselor Glenn Lutchins and my friend Christine Snyder are |
| 1:40.9 | here to discuss what to do when the person you're dating has a serious sin pattern |
| 1:46.3 | or just how do you find out what's in people's past and whether or not you can work with that, |
| 1:52.4 | continue dating them, whatever. So we're going to break it all down. |
| 1:55.9 | Christine actually has a lot of personal experience in this. And of course, Glenn is going to weigh in |
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