Replacing Vices With Virtues: Episode 796
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Evaluating your morning routine, plus JP Pokluda on killing bad habits, and advice for a virgin considering marriage to someone who isn’t.
Featured musical artist: Darlene Zschech
Roundtable: The Importance of Morning Routines
How you start your day is incredibly important to your productivity and overall well-being — but what works for you may not work for someone else. Our guests share what they like best about their morning routines, what they’d like to change, and the gains they’ve seen from structuring their mornings (even a little bit). If you’re looking to craft a better start to your day, you’ll definitely want to tune in.
Culture: JP Pokluda on Breaking Bad Habits (Part 1)
In Romans 7, the Apostle Paul is candid about his struggle with sin: “Why do I do what I don’t want to do?” Pastor Jonathan Pokluda asks the same question in his latest book (titled exactly that!). We can all relate, but what do we do about it? Is it possible to replace vices with virtues and bad habits with good ones? Is it possible to not let sin have mastery over us? In part one of our conversation, JP will share how Christians drift into sin, and tackles two of the book’s main themes: replacing pride with humility, and choosing self-control over lust.
Why Do I Do What I Don’t Want to Do? Replace Deadly Vices with Life-Giving Virtues
Inbox: When a Virgin Marries a Non-Virgin
Our listener is still a virgin but wants to marry someone who isn’t. Are there things to consider? Counselor Geremy Keeton weighs in with hope and practical advice.
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| 1:00.0 | Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. And as I often do, I'm going to give you a little preview of what's coming up. So later on for our inbox, we have a listener who's wondering, how does someone, if you are a virgin, navigate whether or not you want to marry someone |
| 1:29.2 | who is not one? So there's a lot of fears around this, a lot of concerns, a lot of like, |
| 1:34.4 | where do I even go with this in conversation? So one of our counselors, Jeremy Keaton, is going to |
| 1:39.4 | weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, J.P. Pekluda is back with us to share about a new book that he has |
| 1:45.7 | written titled, Why Do What I Don't Want to Do? If that sounds familiar, it's from the Bible. So |
| 1:52.0 | we're going to have part one of our discussion with him about letting go of bad habits and vices and |
| 1:58.1 | mindsets and replacing them with godly ones. So stay tuned for that. Okay, we are here |
| 2:03.0 | for our roundtable, and we have got my friends Georgia Tommy and our own John Pearden here. Hey, |
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