How To Overcome Personal Stagnation, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like you’re stuck in a rut? You know, same job, same routine, day in and day out, same old thing. Would you like to learn how to break out of that rut and experience renewed joy and motivation? Join Chip as he shares how you can overcome personal stagnation.
All living things are either growing or dying.
- Growth is exciting!
- Growth comes from God!
- Growth is not automatic!
- Growth is difficult!
- Growth can be stymied, thwarted, stagnated, and retarded!
7 Keys to Personal Growth:
People Who Grow . . .
- Live daily with the END IN VIEW. -Matt 5:48; Eph 4:13; Rom 8:29
- Make a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to grow. - Luke 9:23-25; 1 Tim 4:7-8
- Value PROCESS more than event. -Heb 5:11-14
- Cultivate stimulating RELATIONSHIPS. -Heb 10:24-25; Pro 13:20
- Choose to become progressive RISK-TAKERS. -Heb 11:6; Luke 6:38
- Leverage life’s HARDSHIP. -James 1:2-4
- Make time for SOLITUDE and SILENCE. -Mark 1:35
Developing a Plan for Your Personal Growth:
- Make a commitment to grow TODAY!
- PRIORITIZE the area of your growth!
- Take one specific step this WEEK!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Do you feel like you're in a rut? You know, |
| 0:16.8 | same job, same people, same ministry, day in, day out, same old stuff, the nagging feeling that |
| 0:22.2 | things are never going to change or get better. |
| 0:24.4 | And so you really just quit trying? |
| 0:27.1 | You stagnate. |
| 0:28.3 | Would you like to learn how to overcome those feelings of stagnation? |
| 0:31.8 | Would you like to rekindle the flame of motivation in your life and relationships? |
| 0:35.8 | It can happen. |
| 0:37.0 | Stay with me. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:40.4 | Life is dynamic. You're either growing or you're dying. There's no middle ground. Yet many |
| 0:46.2 | Christians feel stuck in a spiritual rut, going through the motions without real progress. I'm Dave |
| 0:52.2 | Drury, and today on Living on the Edge Chip Ingram reveals seven |
| 0:55.5 | powerful principles that will propel you beyond personal stagnation. In our series' experience |
| 1:01.2 | breakthrough, we're discovering how to stop feeling confined by life's biggest barriers. |
| 1:06.4 | Today's barrier? Stagnation. That frustrating sense that you're not moving forward spiritually. |
| 1:11.6 | But here's the good news, God has a plan to get you unstuck. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, here's Chip Ingram with his message on how to overcome personal stagnation. |
| 1:20.6 | Does your life honestly feel more like an adventure? |
| 1:23.6 | Does your life feel more like a rut? |
| 1:26.6 | See, life is dynamic. Life is dynamic. It is not |
| 1:31.2 | static. You are either growing or dying. It's true physically, it's true intellectually, it's true |
| 1:40.2 | relationally, it's true spiritually. All living things are either growing and increasing toward maturity or they are deteriorating |
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