An Attitude to Embrace, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
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Summary
Hope sustains the soul when all falls apart. Find hope to make it through difficult times.
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 | Hope is the oxygen of the soul. |
| 0:07.0 | When all around you is falling apart and you feel the pressure squeezing the life out of you, |
| 0:13.0 | hope is the oxygen that sustains you. |
| 0:16.0 | So where do you get hope? |
| 0:18.0 | How will you make it through these challenging times? |
| 0:22.1 | That's today. |
| 0:23.1 | Stay with me. |
| 0:24.1 | You don't want to miss this. |
| 0:26.6 | We're hardwired to avoid pain. |
| 0:29.1 | When trials hit, our first instinct is to run, hide, or ask, why is God doing this to me? |
| 0:35.1 | Does sound familiar? |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Dave Drewie. And today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram opens his Bible to James |
| 0:40.9 | Chapter 1, starting in verse 2. |
| 0:44.0 | In this passage, we'll discover a truth that changes everything. |
| 0:47.6 | God isn't trying to crush us. |
| 0:49.4 | He's building muscle. |
| 0:51.1 | Those unwanted trials we all face, well, they're not signs that God has abandoned us. |
| 0:56.0 | There is training ground for building character. In this study, Chip poses three powerful |
| 1:01.0 | questions that move us from victim to survivor and shows us how enduring hardship produces |
| 1:06.6 | something beautiful. Oh, and good news. Today is Giving Tuesday, and we're excited to add a double |
| 1:13.3 | your impact match to this special day. It's one of the biggest matches in our history. Well, more |
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