Sports Idolatry: Episode 918
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Enjoying sports without letting them own you, plus career experts on common problems at work, and developing a Scripture-reading habit.
Featured Resource (GOAA): Grace at Work: Redeeming the Grind and the Glory of Your Job
Guests: Jesse Florea, Jonathan Jenkins, Rachel Pfeiffer, Marshonda Dixon, Bryan Gilman, Jenn Scheck, Lisa Anderson
Featured musical artist: Jonathan Cain
Roundtable: Sports Fandom Gone Too Far
Fall is synonymous with football, so consider this your friendly reminder that in addition to your commitment to your favorite team, you also have a job, friends, family and a life. Seriously, whatever your sport of choice, it’s easy to get caught up in your team’s schedule, stats, players and performance. Sports are fun, but is there a way to be a fan without compromising your emotional, relational, financial and even spiritual health? This week we’re hearing from almost-addicts who’ve learned to temper their love for the game with a sense of priority and balance. They’ll talk their favorite teams (and athletes and events), but also strategies for staying grounded in a sports-filled life.
Guests: Jesse Florea, Jonathan Jenkins, Rachel Pfeiffer
Culture: Dealing With Problems at Work
Workplace relationships can be tough. Even if you work from home and your only coworker is your cat, you still have bosses, vendors, clients and competitors. Most of us would love to be part of a healthy work culture, but what does that entail? How do you handle issues with a fellow employee or client? Should you confront them directly? Get your boss involved? Take it to HR? What’s a strategy for addressing office gossip or sabotage? How can you assert yourself at work without being labeled a jerk? Our panelists are experts in workplace performance and relational dynamics. They’ll share their best tips for winning at work — interpersonally and beyond.
Guests: Marshonda Dixon, Bryan Gilman, Jenn Scheck
GOAA Offer: Grace at Work: Redeeming the Grind and the Glory of Your Job
Inbox: Discipline for Reading Scripture
How do you cultivate a consistent habit of Bible reading? Do certain tactics work for some and not for others? How do you find a good rhythm and stick to it? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
Guest: Lisa Anderson
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Daly. In summertime, giving to focus on the family slows down, but families in crisis |
| 0:05.8 | still need your support. As we face a bit of a shortfall right now, we need your help to save marriages |
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| 0:17.7 | and provide biblical resources for families. Your gift by August 31st will make a |
| 0:22.8 | real difference and offer lasting hope. Visit focus on the show this week. First up, how to truly |
| 0:57.0 | cultivate a discipline of reading scripture. And this is something that I've been thinking about |
| 1:02.4 | in recent years, so I'm going to answer this week's question. Then for our culture segment, |
| 1:07.6 | we brought in three of our focus on the family colleagues, all of whom |
| 1:12.1 | have extensive experience in HR, whether hiring, firing, developing people, managing employee |
| 1:19.9 | relations issues. So we're going to have a conversation about how to deal with these types of |
| 1:25.1 | issues that might come up in the workplace, because I think |
| 1:28.3 | we'd all agree that we have issues. Sometimes we don't know how to appropriately deal with them. |
| 1:35.1 | All right, here we are for our roundtable, and we figured since we're heading into fall, |
| 1:40.9 | I guess we're, I guess there are seasons around this topic. We know that there are. And so we're |
| 1:46.2 | going to talk about sports. So everyone who is into the NFL for sure just gave a collective |
| 1:52.4 | cheer. There are other sports that start in the fall and there are certainly other sports that |
| 1:57.0 | happen throughout the year. And so we brought three sports fans, and by fans, I mean |
| 2:03.1 | fanatics, to the table to talk about their love of sports, but with the caveat of how do you |
| 2:10.2 | love sports, but not make sports an idol in your life. So we have got Jesse Florea. Jesse, |
| 2:16.5 | great to have you here. Glad to be back. Yeah, it's super fun. Jonathan Jenkins, one of our vid guys. Hey, Jonathan. |
| 2:22.6 | Hey. And Rachel Pfeiffer. She's from our magazines, our kid magazines in particular. So Rachel, |
| 2:28.8 | good to have you here. Yeah, thanks for having me. Absolutely. Everyone who ever read Club and Club Junior can give a little shout for Rachel. |
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