Why Aren’t You Dating?: Episode 812
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
When friends and family urge you to date, plus Hannah Schermerhorn on lessons she learned in singleness, and being a sympathetic listener.
Featured musical artist: Love and the Outcome
Roundtable: Feeling Pressured to Date
Friends and family are our biggest cheerleaders, but it’s unhelpful when they keep asking, “Have you found someone yet?” If you’ve fielded that question for what seems like the thousandth time, what can you do? We share ideas for responding with grace when others pressure you to date.
Culture: One Woman’s Singleness Journey
For Hannah Schermerhorn, being single felt like admitting failure. After a broken engagement, she struggled to put the pieces of her heart together. But through that journey, she learned singleness can actually be a wonderful season with unexpected blessings. She joins us to tell her story, including an assurance that being a single adult doesn’t make you a second-class citizen.
A Single Life to Live: Stop Waiting for Your Life to Begin and Thrive Where God Has You Today
Inbox: How Can I Listen to a Friend’s Problem?
When anyone approaches our listener with a problem, he finds himself wanting to give advice rather than listening and showing compassion. How can he beef up his listening skills? Counselor Linda Miller 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. |
| 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 folks, this is Lisa Anderson for the Boundless Show. Welcome to this week's episode. And I'm going to give you a little preview of what is coming up. But as you will hear me say at the end of the show, FYI, we are just over a week out from starting to celebrate our 25th anniversary here at Boundless. If you were |
| 1:29.4 | alive 25 years ago, kudos to you. We will celebrate your birth as well as the birth of Boundless, |
| 1:36.3 | but some of you are maybe younger than that. And so that's okay. You've joined us along the way, |
| 1:40.0 | and we appreciate it. So meanwhile, you're going to be following boundless.org and all that we have on socials and |
| 1:45.9 | elsewhere in order to keep up with what we are talking about and how we are celebrating |
| 1:50.0 | because it's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 1:52.2 | Okay, here we are in the midst of our show, however. |
| 1:54.8 | Later on for our inbox, we have a listener who's noticing that whenever a friend tells |
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