I Choose Peace - In a Broken World, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 8 March 2023
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Summary
As much as we’d like it to be otherwise, the fact is that the world we live in is violent and uncertain. What is certain is that God promised His children supernatural peace - even in the midst of conditions that threaten to absolutely overwhelm us. Chip unpacks how God’s peace works and how you can have it – even in a broken world.
Introduction: Are you feeding or starving your fear?
University of Tennessee – 12-year study
Psychologically: “We are what we eat.”
Summary: Science and Scripture agree
- We are a product of our THOUGHT life. -Proverbs 23:7
- Our EMOTIONS flow from our thought life. -Romans 8:6
- What we allow to enter our mind is the most important DECISION we make each and every day. -Romans 12:2
Question: How can we choose peace in a broken world?
Answer: Philippians 4:8-9
- Command #1: DWELL on these things… -Philippians 4:8
- Command #2: Habitually PRACTICE these things… -Philippians 4:9a
Promise: The God of peace (shalom) will be WITH YOU. -Philippians 4:9b
21 Minutes that will change your life:
- Read: The Bible -10 minutes
- Pray: Talk with God -7 minutes
- Listen: Sit quietly and listen -3 minutes
- Apply: One specific truth/serve someone -1 minute
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Additional Resource Mentions
- "I Choose Peace" Book
- "The Last Lion" By William Manchester & Paul Reid
- "The Life You've Always Wanted" By John Ortberg
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| 0:00.0 | How do you have peace in a broken world? |
| 0:04.0 | In times like this, when there's such uncertainty and such fear, is it possible to have peace? |
| 0:11.4 | The answer is yes, and today I'll tell you how. |
| 0:14.8 | Stay with me. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Angra. |
| 0:22.0 | The goal of this international discipleship ministry is to encourage Christians to really |
| 0:26.4 | live like Christians. |
| 0:28.1 | Just a minute, Chip will pick up in our study of Philippians chapter 4. |
| 0:31.9 | By posing a question a lot of us are asking these days, in such a divided and chaotic world, |
| 0:37.9 | how is it possible to choose peace? |
| 0:40.3 | Over that answer, here's Chip to continue our series, I Choose Peace, with his message |
| 0:45.3 | in a broken world. |
| 0:48.1 | Pick up your teaching notes. |
| 0:49.1 | We're going to jump right in. |
| 0:51.0 | And as we jump right in, I want you to really think about, I mean, pause, what's the |
| 0:55.2 | greatest fear you're facing today? |
| 0:59.2 | I mean, not some generic, you personally, your life sitting here, what's the greatest |
| 1:04.5 | fear you're facing? |
| 1:06.9 | I want you to really name it. |
| 1:10.7 | Fear the future, fear of health, fear you'll never get married, fear the marriage will |
| 1:14.9 | never get any better, fear for one of your kids, fear about the economy, fear about politics, |
| 1:19.5 | fear about racism, what is it? |
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