Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Newlyweds, a promotion, a new house, a baby - new things, new experiences are great aren’t they? But eventually the shine comes off and life falls into the same routine. Would you like to know how to keep the joy and the wonder in your work and relationships? Then join Chip as he shares how you can overcome personal stagnation.All living things are either growing or dying.Growth is exciting!Growth comes from God!Growth is not automatic!Growth is difficult!Growth can be stymied, thwarted, stagnated, and retarded!7 Keys to Personal Growth:People Who Grow . . .Live daily with the END IN VIEW. -Matt 5:48; Eph 4:13; Rom 8:29Make a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to grow. - Luke 9:23-25; 1 Tim 4:7-8Value PROCESS more than event. -Heb 5:11-14Cultivate stimulating RELATIONSHIPS. -Heb 10:24-25; Pro 13:20Choose to become progressive RISK-TAKERS. -Heb 11:6; Luke 6:38Leverage life’s HARDSHIP. -James 1:2-4Make time for SOLITUDE and SILENCE. -Mark 1:35Developing a Plan for Your Personal Growth:Make a commitment to grow TODAY!PRIORITIZE the area of your growth!Take one specific step this WEEK!Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

Do you feel like you’re stuck in a rut? You know, same job, same routine, day in and day out, same old thing. Would you like to learn how to break out of that rut and experience renewed joy and motivation? Join Chip as he shares how you can overcome personal stagnation.All living things are either growing or dying.Growth is exciting!Growth comes from God!Growth is not automatic!Growth is difficult!Growth can be stymied, thwarted, stagnated, and retarded!7 Keys to Personal Growth:People Who Grow . . .Live daily with the END IN VIEW. -Matt 5:48; Eph 4:13; Rom 8:29Make a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to grow. - Luke 9:23-25; 1 Tim 4:7-8Value PROCESS more than event. -Heb 5:11-14Cultivate stimulating RELATIONSHIPS. -Heb 10:24-25; Pro 13:20Choose to become progressive RISK-TAKERS. -Heb 11:6; Luke 6:38Leverage life’s HARDSHIP. -James 1:2-4Make time for SOLITUDE and SILENCE. -Mark 1:35Developing a Plan for Your Personal Growth:Make a commitment to grow TODAY!PRIORITIZE the area of your growth!Take one specific step this WEEK!Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

Do you feel like you’re stuck in a rut? You know, same job, same routine, day in and day out, same old thing. Would you like to learn how to break out of that rut and experience renewed joy and motivation? Join Chip as he shares how you can overcome personal stagnation.All living things are either growing or dying.Growth is exciting!Growth comes from God!Growth is not automatic!Growth is difficult!Growth can be stymied, thwarted, stagnated, and retarded!7 Keys to Personal Growth:People Who Grow . . .Live daily with the END IN VIEW. -Matt 5:48; Eph 4:13; Rom 8:29Make a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to grow. - Luke 9:23-25; 1 Tim 4:7-8Value PROCESS more than event. -Heb 5:11-14Cultivate stimulating RELATIONSHIPS. -Heb 10:24-25; Pro 13:20Choose to become progressive RISK-TAKERS. -Heb 11:6; Luke 6:38Leverage life’s HARDSHIP. -James 1:2-4Make time for SOLITUDE and SILENCE. -Mark 1:35Developing a Plan for Your Personal Growth:Make a commitment to grow TODAY!PRIORITIZE the area of your growth!Take one specific step this WEEK!Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

There is a place that God created where you can experience authentic love like nowhere else on earth. It’s a place where loneliness is not welcome, and meaningful relationships abound. A community where people can be re-connected to their family. Sound like a place you want to go to? Join Chip and find out where this special place is.Until loneliness is understood, it overwhelmsLoneliness is MORE than being alone.Loneliness WEARS many masks.Loneliness is not a unique malady, but a UNIVERSAL REALITY.*Resource: Changes that Heal by Henry CloudYou don’t have to be lonely, because:God CARES about your loneliness. -Gen 2:18Jesus UNDERSTANDS your loneliness. -Mark 15:34Jesus INVITES you into a relationship with Him. -Matt 11:28-30; Rev 3:20A relationship with Jesus means you ALWAYS belong to His family. -Rom 12:5; 1 Jn 1:1-4How can you experience authentic love and connection in God’s family?By rethinking your view of the CHURCH.By revising your approach to RELATIONSHIPS.Realize your NEED.Move toward OTHERS.Be VULNERABLE.Challenge distorted THINKING.Take RISKS.Be EMPATHETIC -- listen, listen, listen!Trust GOD -- pray, pray, pray!Summary: To “lick loneliness,” you gotta BELONG!Informal steps + formal strategies = A “connected” community of love.Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

What do you do when you’re consumed with loneliness? How do you overcome those feelings of isolation? Chip begins this series with a message he calls, “How to Overcome Loneliness and Isolation.”Until loneliness is understood, it overwhelmsLoneliness is MORE than being alone.Loneliness WEARS many masks.Loneliness is not a unique malady, but a UNIVERSAL REALITY.*Resource: Changes that Heal by Henry CloudYou don’t have to be lonely, because:God CARES about your loneliness. -Gen 2:18Jesus UNDERSTANDS your loneliness. -Mark 15:34Jesus INVITES you into a relationship with Him. -Matt 11:28-30; Rev 3:20A relationship with Jesus means you ALWAYS belong to His family. -Rom 12:5; 1 Jn 1:1-4How can you experience authentic love and connection in God’s family?By rethinking your view of the CHURCH.By revising your approach to RELATIONSHIPS.Realize your NEED.Move toward OTHERS.Be VULNERABLE.Challenge distorted THINKING.Take RISKS.Be EMPATHETIC -- listen, listen, listen!Trust GOD -- pray, pray, pray!Summary: To “lick loneliness,” you gotta BELONG!Informal steps + formal strategies = A “connected” community of love.Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

What do you do when you’re consumed with loneliness? How do you overcome those feelings of isolation? Chip begins this series with a message he calls, “How to Overcome Loneliness and Isolation.”Until loneliness is understood, it overwhelmsLoneliness is MORE than being alone.Loneliness WEARS many masks.Loneliness is not a unique malady, but a UNIVERSAL REALITY.*Resource: Changes that Heal by Henry CloudYou don’t have to be lonely, because:God CARES about your loneliness. -Gen 2:18Jesus UNDERSTANDS your loneliness. -Mark 15:34Jesus INVITES you into a relationship with Him. -Matt 11:28-30; Rev 3:20A relationship with Jesus means you ALWAYS belong to His family. -Rom 12:5; 1 Jn 1:1-4How can you experience authentic love and connection in God’s family?By rethinking your view of the CHURCH.By revising your approach to RELATIONSHIPS.Realize your NEED.Move toward OTHERS.Be VULNERABLE.Challenge distorted THINKING.Take RISKS.Be EMPATHETIC -- listen, listen, listen!Trust GOD -- pray, pray, pray!Summary: To “lick loneliness,” you gotta BELONG!Informal steps + formal strategies = A “connected” community of love.Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the whole earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. The Lord wants to strongly support you and you want to have a heart that is completely His. The question is: how do you know if your heart is fully devoted to God? Curious? In this message, Chip gives us the answer. Introduction: For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. -Romans 15:4David – An unlikely choice -1 Samuel 16David – Does the impossible -1 Samuel 17David – His life after breakthrough -1 Samuel 18-2 SamuelDavid – His legacy of breakthrough -1 Chronicles 29:10-13; Acts 13:22How did David habitually unleash God’s power into impossible situations?He is a BOLD risk-taker -Psalm 27:1-3He is a PASSIONATE worshiper -Psalm 27:4-6He is a WOUNDED healer -Psalm 27:7-10He is a FIERCE warrior - Psalm 27:11-12He is a FAITHFUL servant -Psalm 27:13-14David understood the “Joseph Journey”Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

What if normal life for you consisted of major breakthroughs in destructive habits and behaviors? What if victories over anger and greed issues occurred on a regular basis? What if God were to use you to change your neighborhood or even your community? Chip asks the question, "What if breakthroughs like that were normal?" and shows us what that kind of life looks like.Introduction: For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. -Romans 15:4David – An unlikely choice -1 Samuel 16David – Does the impossible -1 Samuel 17David – His life after breakthrough -1 Samuel 18-2 SamuelDavid – His legacy of breakthrough -1 Chronicles 29:10-13; Acts 13:22How did David habitually unleash God’s power into impossible situations?He is a BOLD risk-taker -Psalm 27:1-3He is a PASSIONATE worshiper -Psalm 27:4-6He is a WOUNDED healer -Psalm 27:7-10He is a FIERCE warrior - Psalm 27:11-12He is a FAITHFUL servant -Psalm 27:13-14David understood the “Joseph Journey”Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

Do you wish your neighborhood was safer? Or maybe that your kid's teacher wasn’t so anti-Christian. Or that you could reach the people you work with for Christ? What if God wanted you to be the one to lead the change? Where would you start? Chip explains how you can be the catalyst for positive, God-honoring change, in your neighborhood, school, or community.How Jesus “reached” a city:A lesson for His disciples -John 4Where did the Breakthrough begin?Whom did Jesus choose to use?How did she “make room” for Breakthrough?What “courageous step” did she take?What did Jesus want His disciples to learn... about Himself? About breakthroughs?Timeless axiom: Unlikely, supernatural breakthroughs are not dependent on aFUTURE work of God, but a PRESENT work of “one”. -John 4:34-39How His followers “reached” the world:A Lesson for Us -Book of ActsWhere did breakthrough begin?Whom did Jesus choose to use?How did they “make room” for breakthrough?What “courageous steps” did they take?What was/is the result?What does Jesus want us to learn . . . about Himself? About ourselves? About breakthroughs?Timeless axiom: Breakthroughs are fueled by COMPASSION and birthed in biblical COMMUNITY.Action steps:PRAY fervently and desperately.EXTEND God’s compassion to someone or a group in need this week.JOIN or START a small group to pursue breakthrough “in” you and then “through” you.Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003

Good things come in small packages. Do you believe that? Whether it’s a wedding ring, or a smart phone, or a nice wristwatch, we all know that a small package can contain some pretty interesting stuff. Interestingly, Jesus was a big proponent of small. Chip unleashes the secret of how to get the most from those small things in life.How Jesus “reached” a city:A lesson for His disciples -John 4Where did the Breakthrough begin?Whom did Jesus choose to use?How did she “make room” for Breakthrough?What “courageous step” did she take?What did Jesus want His disciples to learn... about Himself? About breakthroughs?Timeless axiom: Unlikely, supernatural breakthroughs are not dependent on aFUTURE work of God, but a PRESENT work of “one”. -John 4:34-39How His followers “reached” the world:A Lesson for Us -Book of ActsWhere did breakthrough begin?Whom did Jesus choose to use?How did they “make room” for breakthrough?What “courageous steps” did they take?What was/is the result?What does Jesus want us to learn... about Himself? About ourselves? About breakthroughs?Timeless axiom: Breakthroughs are fueled by COMPASSION and birthed in biblical COMMUNITY.Action steps:PRAY fervently and desperately.EXTEND God’s compassion to someone or a group in need this week.JOIN or START a small group to pursue breakthrough “in” you and then “through” you.Broadcast ResourceDownload MP3Message NotesAdditional Resource MentionsI Choose Love BookDaily Discipleship - Psalms of HopeConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003