Male Friendship: Episode 837
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Finding fun and inspiration in other men, plus Scott Kedersha on doing devotions as a dating couple, and how guys can serve single moms.
Featured musical artist: Love and the Outcome
Roundtable: Finding Quality Male Friends
Guys, who’s someone from your friend group you can laugh and have fun with? And who inspires and challenges you? The truth is, we need both types of friends. This week, a group of guys tells which of their friendships bring out the best in them, how they cultivate them, and why these types of friendships matter.
Culture: Devotions for Dating Couples
Spiritual compatibility is the most important part of your dating relationship, but we’ve heard that going too deep spiritually with your date can force inappropriate intimacy. Is there a balance? Pastor Scott Kedersha from Harris Creek Baptist Church has written a devotional for couples who are dating or engaged. He’ll discuss healthy boundaries in praying with your date, how to study the Bible together, and why knowing a person’s spiritual patterns and beliefs is good intel for assessing marriage potential.
The Ready or Knot Prayer Guide: 100 Prayers for Dating and Engaged Couples
Inbox: Men Serving Single Moms
Our listener has many friends who are single mothers. He wants to reach out and offer practical help, but how can he do so without overstepping his bounds? Counselor Patrick Hill weighs in.
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| 1:10.8 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, here with you. And I don't know if you all have survived Valentine's Day. It is now in the rearview mirror. And so you know that I love it. And so I'm not even going to go there. But hopefully you were |
| 1:28.9 | encouraged this year. And you know what? We're now moving into the rest of February so we can be |
| 1:33.4 | excited about that. In the meantime, later on for our inbox, we have a guy who has single mom |
| 1:40.0 | friends in his life. And he's wanting to know, how can I help them and befriend them without |
| 1:44.9 | overstepping any bounds? And so one of our counselors is going to answer that question. And then for |
| 1:50.1 | our culture segment, if you are dating, have you ever wondered how you and your significant other |
| 1:55.7 | can do devotions together? Should you do devotions together? Well, our friend, Pastor Scott |
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