True Confessions: Episode 860
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Being content in every circumstance, plus tips for connecting with your neighbors, and responding when someone confesses a sin struggle.
Featured musical artist: Je’kob
Roundtable: Finding Contentment
Opportunities to buy into the lie, “I’d be happy if I had (fill in the blank),” surround us everywhere we go. But what if there were a way to truly be content regardless of the circumstance or season? Our guests share their struggles with contentment and how they’ve learned to seek trust and gratitude instead.
Culture: Neighborhood Watch
In a world of increasing isolation, it’s easy to overlook our neighbors. But what if you discovered creative opportunities to connect with and be a light to the people on your street and in your community? Chris and Elizabeth McKinney felt God’s call to do just that. They’re here this week to share their best strategies for becoming a friend to the people (literally) around you.
Neighborhoods Reimagined: How the Beatitudes Inspire Our Call to be Good Neighbors
Inbox: When a Friend Confesses Sin
What should you do if a friend confesses a sin struggle to you? Counselor George Stahnke weighs in.
Transcript
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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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| 1:10.7 | Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. And I am, of course, going to give you a little preview of what is coming up later on in the show. In fact, I'm also going to say I was at church yesterday. You know, we taped this all throughout the week. And a woman at church just came and was like, |
| 1:29.9 | I just listened to this show on my walks and it helps me understand my young adult kids. So, |
| 1:35.7 | I mean, no pressure on today's guests, but you are really just helping to shepherd a generation or two. |
| 1:42.2 | Anyway, here's what's coming up later. For our inbox, how should we |
| 1:45.3 | react when someone confesses sin to us? So one of our counselors is going to weigh in what that might |
| 1:51.5 | look like, especially as we want to be supportive to the body of Christ. And then for our |
| 1:56.5 | culture segment, Chris and Elizabeth McKinney host the Placed for a Purpose podcast. And they have a new book |
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