Relationship Seasons: Episode 896
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Obeying God’s commands about sex (part two), plus Ben Stuart on breakups, engagement and marriage, and how do you prepare to be a stay-at-home mom?
Featured musical artist: Zach Williams
Roundtable: A Sexual Purity Reset (Part 2)
Do you sometimes feel you’re the last Christian on earth who hasn’t had sex? Or you think God has bigger things to worry about than your sex life, so a little compromise here or there is no big deal. Maybe you’ve caved to sexual sin and are wondering if you’re a Christian at all. If any of these scenarios describe you, you’re not alone. God is pretty clear about His sexual standards and design, so why is it so hard to obey them? And in today’s culture, why should we? In part two of this no-holds-barred conversation, our guests discuss why church can be a difficult place to talk about sexual struggles, how sex in marriage is a big deal, and finding a future beyond sexual sin.
Culture: Moving From a Breakup to Marriage
Most of us go through at least one breakup while dating, but is there a way to navigate a relationship’s demise without getting caught in a bad cycle of them? Pastor Ben Stuart broke up with a girlfriend in college and learned a few valuable lessons in the process. Breakups may be part of your journey through the relational seasons of being single, dating, getting engaged and getting married. But as Ben explains, it’s possible to survive a breakup (or several) and move toward marriage with confidence.
Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age
Inbox: Prep to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom
Our listener dreams of being a stay-at-home mom and is asking how she should prepare. Counselor Joannie DeBrito weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. |
| 0:12.1 | Well, friends, welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:17.2 | Let me give you a little preview of what is coming up this week as we are now in |
| 0:21.4 | April. It's a great month. I love it. Okay. It's not even my birthday month, you guys, and I'm still |
| 0:26.7 | giving it props, okay? But I love April. I love the longer days. Let's talk about it. Let's celebrate it. |
| 0:32.3 | Okay, later on for our inbox, a listener has a dream of being a stay-at-home mom and is wondering, what are some |
| 0:39.5 | skills that she will need to learn? Okay, I'm not even sure that these are skills that only stay-at-home |
| 0:45.0 | moms need, but we're going to talk, we're going to talk this through with one of our experts |
| 0:49.7 | related to that. Then our culture segment, Ben Stewart, is back with us this week. I told you last week |
| 0:55.7 | that he would be sharing about breakups, including a pretty awesome story from his own experience |
| 1:02.7 | and lessons that he's learned in the process. So based on his updated book, single dating, engaged, |
| 1:09.2 | married. So that'll be really fun for us to talk through. Okay, here we are for |
| 1:13.3 | our roundtable. We are also back this week with our dear friends, Bree, Trevor, and Jeff. Welcome |
| 1:20.0 | back, you guys. Thanks for having us. Okay. Those of you who know who listened to last week's show, |
| 1:24.7 | know that we are in a conversation on sexual integrity, |
| 1:28.9 | purity, honoring God with our sexuality, and including, you know, what that looks like as far as |
| 1:36.4 | sin in sexual decisions, what that looks like as far as hopefulness for how we walk this out, |
| 1:42.8 | how we trust God in the process of being hopeful for |
| 1:47.0 | relationship and beyond. And so we had a really great start to this conversation last week. |
| 1:53.8 | I would say it was kind of hard. It was like, you know, me saying, hey guys, put it all on the |
| 1:57.8 | table and talk to us about, you know, your fears and failures and whatnot. |
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