An Attitude to Embrace, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Chip's series on James 1 offers God's hope and insight for facing trials and fear today.
3 Observations about life in a fallen world
1. Trials are inevitable
2. Trials tend to “make us” or “break us”
3. Victims fail to move beyond asking “why” and remain stuck in their pain
A word from God to those whose world is “falling apart.” -James 1:1-4
1. What can I control? -My ATTITUDE
2. What must I do to make it through today? -ENDURE
3. What hope do I have for tomorrow? -God will take the WORST and use it for my BEST
How God uses adversity to mature us
1. We're forced to DEPEND on God at a new level. Left alone, we're self-sufficient, proud, and insensitive to Him.
2. We're WEANED from the temporal, urgent, and worldly affairs of life. We're forced to REEXAMINE our values, priorities, commitments, and future.
3. Trials let us WITNESS God's reality and power first-hand. Our need becomes the vehicle of His grace; our problems the object of His power.
4. They serve as a TESTIMONY to the unbelieving world. How we endure hardship shows the world how real God is.
5. We become sensitive, caring, and compassionate CHRIST-LIKE people. Those hurt deeply tend to love deeply.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:05.0 | Let's face it, hardship and pain are an unavoidable part of life. |
| 0:09.0 | Whether you're anxious, suffering from a health problem, lost your job or lost a friend, |
| 0:15.0 | we're all struggling through something right now. |
| 0:17.0 | The question is, how do we endure it? |
| 0:20.0 | How do we get through the darkest periods of life? |
| 0:22.7 | That's today. Stay with me. |
| 0:26.1 | In a world that's driven by creature comforts, we do everything possible to dodge any semblance |
| 0:31.7 | of pain. After all, doesn't God want us to be comfortable? I'm Dave Drewouy. Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram |
| 0:38.5 | reminds us that comfort isn't God's agenda, nor is he trying to break us. During our struggles, |
| 0:44.6 | God is building spiritual muscle. We didn't know we needed. As we dig into James chapter one, |
| 0:50.5 | Chip identifies three game-changing questions that'll move us from victim to survivor. |
| 0:55.9 | Plus, he'll show us why choosing the right attitude matters more than you think. |
| 1:00.6 | Oh, and by the way, later in today's program, Chip will describe an exciting match that begins today, |
| 1:05.8 | one of the biggest in our history. |
| 1:07.7 | And it's just in time for Giving Tuesday, which is tomorrow. Well, more about that |
| 1:12.1 | match later. Right now, the message from Chip Ingram, an attitude to embrace. You know, we're |
| 1:17.5 | living in very historic times right now. For some right now, this is a very difficult time, |
| 1:23.6 | but they see a way through. For others, it's a desperate time. How will we get through this? |
| 1:30.0 | The question isn't sometimes, you know, how do we thrive? Sometimes the question is how do we |
| 1:36.5 | survive? Well, I want to tell you that there is an art to survival. You know, science sometime is |
| 1:43.3 | very clear. There's a formula, right? You know, |
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