Respectable Sins (Part 2): Episode 684
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The struggle with discontentment, plus making Bible reading a daily habit, and what’s your role in finding a spouse?
Featured musical artist: David Dunn
Roundtable: The Sin of Discontentment
It’s easy to judge someone who sins big. After all, we would never do that, right? But what about those sneaky, subtle sins that we excuse, ignore or explain away? The late Jerry Bridges called them “respectable” sins. But sin is sin. So what do we do? In part two of our roundtable series, our guests tackle the topic of discontentment. It may look like obsessing over getting married, comparing yourself to your friends’ adventures on social media, or hating your job and wishing you had a better one. Our guests discuss the subtle ways they’ve struggled with discontentment, and how being grateful for God’s blessings makes the ultimate difference.
Inbox: Finding a Mate: God’s Job or Mine?
He’s single and wants to date, but feels like his options are limited right now. The big question running through his head is: Does God lead you to your spouse, or do you have to find one yourself? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
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| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. Well, hey everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, |
| 1:13.7 | here with you. And as I usually do, a little preview of what's coming up. Later on, for our inbox, |
| 1:18.7 | we have a single guy who's wondering if it's his responsibility to find a spouse, or if God is going to send him someone, |
| 1:26.1 | or maybe it's somewhere in between. So I'm going to give |
| 1:28.4 | him some advice on that. Well, here we are for our roundtable. And we are continuing our series on |
| 1:35.1 | respectable sins, which I have to give a nod to the late great Jerry Bridges, who wrote the book |
| 1:41.2 | titled Respectable Sins. He also went to my church, but I don't want to just be a name dropper. |
| 1:47.2 | But anyway, we're having a good time in a series here of conversations |
| 1:51.1 | around real people grappling with these so-called respectable sins. |
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