Get Out Of Your Head - The Antidote for Cynicism
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
Living on the Edge
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you consider yourself a skeptical person? Ya know do you approach life with 'glass half-empty' attitude? Are you always waiting for the other shoe to drop? In this program, guest teacher Jennie Allen shares why this mindset is actually very toxic to our thought life. She’ll reveal just how pervasive cynicism is, and the ways it steals our joy. Don’t miss how to change your way of thinking.
Am I cynical? - Ask yourself these questions:
- Do I get annoyed when people are optimistic?
- When someone is nice to me, do I wonder what that person wants?
- Do I constantly feel misunderstood?• When things are going well am I waiting for something to go wrong?
- Do I quickly notice people’s flaws or faults?
- Do I worry about getting taken advantage of?
- Am I guarded when I meet someone new?
- Do I wonder sometimes why people just can’t get it together?
- Am I sarcastic?
Cynicism – is the idea that we’re looking for the bad to keep the bad from hurting us.
The antidote for cynicism:
- Be careful with what you feed your soul.
- Choose friends that are life-giving.
- Delight in God’s creation.
- Believe in the good.
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About Jennie Allen: Jennie Allen is the founder and visionary behind IF: Gathering and she is the author of several books and study guides, including Restless, Anything, and Nothing to Prove. She is a passionate leader following God’s call on her life to catalyze a generation of women to live what they believe. Jennie has a master’s in Biblical studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Zac and their four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think of yourself as a skeptical person, you know, kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop? |
| 0:08.0 | Do you see kind of the world with that half empty glass instead of half full? |
| 0:14.1 | That mentality is what some people call cynicism. |
| 0:18.1 | And today we're going to learn how pervasive it is, how it steals our joy, and how we can |
| 0:24.5 | learn to make it go away. Stay with me. Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the |
| 0:33.6 | Edge with Chipping Room. We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry |
| 0:39.0 | that motivates Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:42.1 | Well, as many of you know, Chip's our regular Bible |
| 0:44.2 | teacher for this daily program, |
| 0:46.0 | but for this series, he's passed the mic to our friend, |
| 0:48.8 | Jenny Allen. |
| 0:50.1 | Now, Jenny is an accomplished author, national speaker, |
| 0:53.2 | and founder of the If Gathering Events. |
| 0:56.0 | We're a little over halfway through her series, Get Out of Your Head. |
| 0:59.3 | So far, Jenny's identified a handful of toxic thoughts that can rot our minds and provided biblical remedies to combat them. |
| 1:07.5 | And to help you continue to get the most out of this series, let me encourage you to download |
| 1:12.0 | our message notes. They contain Jenny's outline, scripture references, and more. Get them by |
| 1:17.8 | visiting the broadcasts tab at Livingontheedge.org. At listeners, tap fill in notes. Okay, if you're |
| 1:25.4 | ready, here's Jenny with our message, the antidote for cynicism. |
| 1:30.1 | So we are diving into the different enemies that attack our mind. And today we're going to talk |
| 1:35.4 | about one that I see everywhere. And the tricky one with this is it's actually valued by most |
| 1:40.9 | of us. It's not something we typically fight because I think it's something that we |
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