Forgiving - How to Restore Your Peace, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you find yourself living in a marriage full of unspoken tension? You’re polite and all, but there’s no honest sharing or compassion? In this final program of the series, Chip shares a tool that walks you step-by-step, through a communication process that’ll free you from the past, free you from the guilt, and free you from the history that’s holding your relationship hostage.
Three major reasons we have shame:
- A theological reason – we ALL have shame.
- Shame from things DONE to us.
- Shame of things that we DO.
Three natural responses:
- To HIDE.
- To NUMB the pain.
- To COMPENSATE.
John 21:1-19
Principles:
- Jesus MEETS us where we are.
- Jesus gently DEMANDS that we face the truth about ourselves.
- Jesus AFFIRMS our value and our worthiness by commissioning us to service.
Practical implications:
- You can’t forgive your mate until you have RECEIVED both forgiveness and restoration. -Ephesians 4:32
- EXPERIENCE God’s forgiveness and restoration.
- Freely GIVE what you have received.
Tools for transformation:
D – DEFINE the issue clearly.
E – ENTER the pain and hurt.
F – Ask for FORGIVENESS.
U – UNDERSTAND the process.
- Phase 1: Forgive
- Phase 2: Forgiving
- Phase 3: Forgiven
S – SET things right between you.
- Own your responsibility
- Confess: “I was wrong.”
- Ask: “Will you forgive me?”
- Answer: “Yes, I forgive you.”
E – ESTABLISH a specific game plan to move forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | How do you restore the love, connection, and joy in your marriage when you're completely |
| 0:20.2 | at odds, when there's resentment and anger in your marriage, when you're completely at odds, when there's resentment |
| 0:22.3 | and anger in your heart, when one of you has really messed up big time. |
| 0:27.5 | That's today on Living on the Edge. Stay with me. |
| 0:31.7 | Can you truly rejoice when the person who hurt you is doing well? |
| 0:36.1 | That's the test of complete forgiveness. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm Dave Drury, and today on Living on the Edge, |
| 0:41.0 | Chip Ingram shares a powerful message about the rhythm of forgiveness. |
| 0:45.0 | We'll see how forgiveness has three distinct phases, |
| 0:48.0 | an event, a process, and a destination. |
| 0:51.4 | And Chip will give you a practical roadmap to help you set things right with your mate. |
| 0:56.4 | If unresolved conflict is calcifying your heart and stealing your peace, this message offers |
| 1:01.8 | the way forward. |
| 1:02.8 | Well, here's Chip Ingram with a message titled Forgiving, How to Restore Your Peace. |
| 1:08.8 | Here's what I want to tell you. |
| 1:10.6 | There's a difference between being forgiven |
| 1:12.6 | and being restored. There's a lot of people who have been legally forgiven. Your sins are forgiven, |
| 1:20.7 | but you live as a second-class citizen, or you're numbing yourself, or you have big walls between you and your mate and other people. |
| 1:31.0 | Practical implications, and this gets to your marriage, |
| 1:35.2 | is that you can't forgive your mate until you've received both forgiveness and restoration. |
| 1:42.3 | And you would be shocked at what would happen if you receive both God's forgiveness and his restoration. And you would be shocked at what would happen |
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