Serving in Your City: Episode 729
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Volunteering in your community, plus Carey Nieuwhof on maximizing effectiveness, and should you reconnect with a high school love interest?
Featured musical artist: Hollyn ( https://www.instagram.com/iamhollyn/?hl=en )
Roundtable: Volunteering Where You Live
Whether it’s helping the homeless, being on a neighborhood committee, tutoring, or something out-of-the-box, the options for serving your community are endless. But how do you pick something and actually make it happen? How do you find a great fit that uses your gifting and passions? Our guests share how they volunteer locally and the process they went through to choose great ways to jump in and make a difference.
Culture: Make the Most of Your Time (Part 1)
For years, Carey Nieuwhof struggled with workaholism, which eventually led to his burnout. After much prayer and recovery, he started budgeting his time and energy, and has seen incredible results. In part one of our conversation, Carey shares lessons from research and his own journey, discussing how to find the time when you’re most productive, why achieving balance in your schedule isn’t the best goal, and insights for eliminating ever-present distractions.
Inbox: That Crush From High School
He asked her out in high school and she rejected him. Since then, he’s grown a lot in his faith, and recently started thinking about her again. Should he try to reconnect with her and see if she’d be interested now? 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. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
| 0:45.1 | gifts even further. So boundless.org slash donate, you have the opportunity to take us into the new |
| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:01.8 | Well, hey everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 1:13.1 | Lisa Anderson here with you, and as I always like to do, a little of what's coming up. |
| 1:18.0 | For our inbox, we have a guy who really liked a girl in high school, but she turned him down for a date. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, it's been years since then, and he is wondering, is now the time to maybe circle back and see if something could transpire? |
| 1:32.5 | He's asking for some advice, so I'm going to weigh in on that. |
| 1:36.1 | And then for our culture segment, author and pastor Kerry Newhoff is back with us to share about a new book that he has written titled At Your Best. |
| 1:45.2 | This is going to be part one of our conversation where he's going to discuss things like why many people resent their |
| 1:50.0 | careers, offer some ideas for managing your time, as well as eliminating distractions. So stay tuned. |
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