Rethinking Alcohol: Episode 884
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The difference between rest and procrastination, plus a challenge to go 40 days alcohol-free, and do girlfriends need to submit to their boyfriends?
Featured musical artist: Danen Kane
Roundtable: Are You Resting or Procrastinating?
When you’re working hard to reach new goals, it’s important to pace yourself and not burn yourself out. But can you tell the difference between true rest and straight-up procrastination? Our guests share their best insights on when it’s time to take a break versus when it’s time to get off the couch and get busy.
Culture: The Case for Sobriety
Christy Osborne had long been a casual drinker, but when her mother died, she became alcohol-dependent. Her downtime, social time and vacation time revolved around booze. Although Scripture isn’t absolute on the issue of drinking in moderation, Christy knew that alcohol had become central to her life. She explored what sobriety might look like: how it would affect her health, relationships and mindset. Now a sobriety coach, Christy joins us to share her journey and suggestions for making an objective assessment of our relationship with alcohol.
Inbox: Should a Woman Submit to Her Boyfriend?
Scripture tells wives to submit to their husbands. In dating, does that same principle apply between women and their boyfriends? Counselor Brenda Huerta weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless shows. |
| 0:11.2 | Well, folks, welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless Show. |
| 0:14.4 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:16.9 | We are squarely in January at this point. |
| 0:20.6 | And that means that the days are getting longer. |
| 0:24.2 | Praise God. |
| 0:25.6 | This is like my favorite. |
| 0:26.7 | No, it's not my favorite time of the year. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm totally lying. |
| 0:29.5 | It is my seventh favorite time of the year, this part of January, where the days are getting longer. |
| 0:35.2 | All that to say, we have so many great things to talk about on |
| 0:37.9 | this week's show, and we're going to get started, a little preview for our inbox. We're going to |
| 0:42.9 | have a conversation here or a question, I guess, about respect. So if scripture says, what does it |
| 0:48.9 | look like for wives to love their husbands, respect their husbands, But does that same principle apply to when you're |
| 0:56.6 | dating? This is like a theological question that we are definitely going to bring in one of our |
| 1:02.1 | counselor friends to answer. And then for our culture segment, Christy Osborne has written a book |
| 1:07.2 | titled Love Life Sober, a 40-day alcohol fast to rediscover your joy. |
| 1:13.4 | And so this conversation around Christians and booze, and we're not going to get all weird |
| 1:18.9 | and legalistic, but we're going to talk about principles and wisdom around alcohol. |
| 1:24.3 | And so this is going to be a fascinating conversation with Christy. Okay, here we are for |
| 1:28.7 | our roundtable, though, speaking of fascinating conversations, because we're in a new year, |
| 1:34.3 | why shouldn't we talk about procrastination? Because we have already, some of us have already |
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