Interview with Chip and Theresa - Overcoming Our Biggest Challenges
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ask any couple and they’ll tell you - marriage is hard - especially when disagreements arise and personalities clash. So how can couples endure? In this program, we’ll learn some helpful ‘how-tos’ through the final part of Chip and Theresa Ingram’s conversation. Hear how they worked through challenges in their marriage over the last 45 years by remaining close to God and holding tight to His promises.
Main Points
Celebrating Marriage: Annie joins her parents to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary and discuss the ups and downs of their marriage.
Common Marital Struggles: They acknowledge that all marriages face common issues like money, children, sex, communication, and hardships.
Parenting Challenges: Chip and Theresa talk about their disagreements over disciplining their children and the importance of understanding each child's needs.
Sexual Intimacy: Theresa shares her struggles with sexual intimacy and the need for communication and seeking help within marriage.
Navigating Hardships: Chip and Theresa discuss how they've faced various hardships together and stress the importance of leaning on each other and their faith in God.
Seeking God's Guidance: Theresa emphasizes the value of seeking God's wisdom during tough times, while Chip highlights the importance of endurance and trusting God's promises.
Faith as Foundation: Annie reflects on her parents' strong faith in Jesus as the cornerstone of their marriage and encourages listeners to seek a similar relationship for fulfilling and lasting relationships.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Every marriage has big problems at some time or another and they're pretty |
| 0:06.0 | predictable. Today, Theresa and I share very openly about our challenges with |
| 0:11.0 | kids, money, sex, communication, and how God in His Grace has helped |
| 0:16.6 | us to work through those things. |
| 0:18.1 | I hope it will be a help to you. |
| 0:19.8 | Stay with me. Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:26.0 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry motivating Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:33.8 | Today we'll wrap up our short interview series |
| 0:36.2 | with Chip and Theresa Ingram. |
| 0:37.9 | For the past couple of programs, |
| 0:39.5 | they've shared some helpful advice |
| 0:41.1 | from their 45 years of marriage. We hope you've been challenged |
| 0:44.8 | and encouraged by their conversation and move to apply some of this wisdom to your |
| 0:49.6 | relationship. If you miss the first two parts of this series catch up through the Chippingramap or at |
| 0:55.2 | Living on the Edge.org. |
| 0:58.0 | Well with all that said here's Chip and Teresa's daughter Annie to get us going with today's program overcoming our biggest |
| 1:04.8 | challenges. Well mom and dad it's been really fun being on air with you guys and |
| 1:11.4 | talking about your marriage, |
| 1:13.1 | celebrating your 45th wedding anniversary. |
| 1:15.5 | We've heard your story. |
| 1:17.2 | We've talked about practices that have cultivated |
| 1:20.0 | a strong marriage and allowed you guys to be at 45 years and still like each other, which is wonderful. |
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