Jesus on the Job: Episode 933
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Taking the gospel to work, plus Kyle Idleman on what it means to guard your mind, and should you bring your significant other home for Christmas?
Featured musical artist: Hollyn
Roundtable: Sharing the Gospel With Coworkers
If you work in a secular industry or environment, is it possible to make your faith known? What are creative ways to bring the gospel into how you show up on the job? Our guests have experience living out their faith in creative ways in everything from the corporate world to customer service to a counseling practice. They’ll give you the courage and tools to speak up, love your coworkers, and be the hands and feet of Jesus in the office, classroom, factory and beyond.
Culture: Thoughts Got You Stuck?
How do you keep your mind settled and sorted when too many things compete for your attention? Pastor and popular author Kyle Idleman explains what it means to guard your mind, and how fighting toxic thoughts, calming the chaos and fighting for truth makes a difference when fielding offenses and Satan’s lies.
Inbox: Bringing Your Date to Christmas
You want to bring your boyfriend or girlfriend to meet your family at Christmas. But what are the dos and don’ts for doing so? Angel Perez weighs in.
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| 0:56.7 | Focus on the Family.com slash family. Well, hey friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. We are barreling into Christmas. I hope you all have been enjoying our Advent experience with Boundless because we worked hard on it. Okay, so I'm just going to be honest. So |
| 1:29.8 | you can actually still sign up for it and catch up on the previous weeks if you want to, |
| 1:34.7 | if you have some time. But in the meantime, let me give you a little preview of what is coming |
| 1:39.3 | up on this week's show. So for our inbox, what if you want to bring your significant other over to meet |
| 1:45.7 | your folks for Christmas? Is that even wise? One of our counselors is going to give some insights |
| 1:51.2 | on how to do that well. And then for our culture segment, Pastor Kyle Eidelman is a well-known |
| 1:57.3 | author. He has a brand new book out called Every Thought Captive, |
| 2:01.3 | really about guarding your mind. What does that even mean? So we're going to have a |
| 2:05.7 | conversation with him about that. Okay, here we are for our roundtable. And it's always fun |
| 2:11.6 | when we can bring folks into the studio to have a great conversation around something that |
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