Shouldering Sorrow: Episode 863
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Processing sadness, plus how our bodies glorify our Creator, and should you barter with God?
Featured musical artist: Covenant Worship
Roundtable: When Sorrow Runs Deep
The loss of a loved one; betrayal by a trusted friend; local and international tragedies. We live in a broken world, and heartbreaking things happen. When grief and tragedy strike, how do you process the sadness? Is it possible to continue your work, your commitments, your routines as you seek to make sense of things? Our guests share how they’ve learned to find comfort from God in the midst of deep sorrow.
Culture: How a Healthy Body and Mind Glorify God
The human body is incredibly complex. Science keeps revealing new truths about how God has designed us, leading to insights in how we can best steward how we’re made. Stephen Ko is a medical doctor, public health specialist and pastor. He offers motivation and methods for taking care of our physical and mental health, and why doing so is connected to our spiritual well-being.
Faith Embodied: Glorifying God with Our Physical and Spiritual Health
Inbox: Can I Barter With God?
Our listener really wants to be married, but he also wants his dad to get saved. Is it OK to offer up a chance at marriage as a barter to God so his dad can come to Christ? Counselor Jerry Jones 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. |
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| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
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| 1:00.1 | Boundless Show. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, folks, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you, |
| 1:16.4 | and we are smack in the middle of August. And it is so warm here in Colorado right now, you guys. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm not even joking. I just came in from outside, and I had to come into the studio to cool down because |
| 1:28.0 | they keep it pretty cool here. So that is a blessing. Also a blessing is the rest of this show. |
| 1:33.4 | And you know that I love giving you guys a little preview of what's coming up. So later on for our |
| 1:38.2 | inbox, we have a listener who has made kind of this barter with God. They want to be married, but they also want to see their dad get saved. |
| 1:47.9 | And so they're willing to barter that with God. |
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