How To Overcome Boredom and the Blues
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
With hundreds of cable and satellite channels to choose from, and 24/7 internet information overload, why is it so easy to feel bored? Chip shares the reason for our boredom, and delivers the God-designed solution for overcoming it!
Introduction: “I was looking for life in all the wrong places.”
- What is boredom?
- Why are we bored?
- Why do “the blues” and boredom go hand-in-hand?
- Could “boredom” be a gift in disguise?
God’s answer to boredom = Authentic worship
What is Authentic Worship?
- Definition – Worship is our response to God for who He is and what He has done.
- Romans 12:1
- Summary – Worship is the complete and total giving of ourselves for that which we believe has ULTIMATE PURPOSE and will provide the GREATEST REWARD.
3 Principles for authentic worship:
- Authentic worship can happen ANYWHERE. -John 4:21-22
- Authentic worship flows from the HEART. -John 4:23
- Authentic worship is rooted in an ACCURATE view of God and of ourselves. -John 4: 24
How can you experience greater intimacy in worship?
- Private worship = A.C.T.S.
- Public worship = The 3 “P’s”
Conclusion: Worship is not a service you come to or an activity you practice; worship is a life-focus, an expression of your deepest longings, passions, and devotion to whom or what you love the most.
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| 0:00.9 | This is the Chip Ingram's sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. |
| 0:06.8 | In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.7 | Here's Chip Ingram with How to Overcome Bortem and the Blues. |
| 0:16.7 | Webster says boredom is the condition of becoming weary by dull, uninteresting, or monotonous |
| 0:23.5 | activity or focus. It's trying to get satisfied with something, and then after you try it for |
| 0:30.5 | a while, it doesn't satisfy, so you try something else, and then things just get dull. |
| 0:35.6 | If you don't think we're a culture that struggles with boredom, |
| 0:38.7 | consider the word amusement and the multi-billion dollar industry. |
| 0:43.6 | You know what the word muse means? |
| 0:44.9 | It means to think. |
| 0:46.0 | You know what amusement means? |
| 0:47.3 | Not to think. |
| 0:48.3 | We have amusement parks, video, TV, vacations, bungee jumping, thrill-seeking, adrenaline writing. |
| 0:55.8 | We have people that the highlight of their week is when one of their favorite authors |
| 1:01.8 | writes a new fictional novel. |
| 1:04.2 | We're a culture that lives vicariously. |
| 1:06.7 | We are so bored. |
| 1:09.3 | We are so empty when it gets down to what matters. |
| 1:12.7 | We vicariously live through rock stars and sports figures and romance novels and the latest movie. |
| 1:19.2 | We have to line up and we have to get there first because in the office or we want to talk about what? |
| 1:25.4 | Fictitious people in made up stories stories who live in Southern California, whose |
| 1:30.7 | lives don't work, who they paint up after surgery to put on pretend lives that we pay seven |
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