Interview with Chip and Theresa - Practices that Strengthened Our Marriage
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What are some habits that make for a deep, intimate marriage? Not one that’s perfect but one where both husband and wife work well together. In this program, Chip and Theresa Ingram will highlight a few as they continue reflecting on 45 years of marriage. They’ll explain how practices like praying and studying the Bible, paying bills together, and having a weekly date – have strengthened their commitment to God, each other, and their family.
Main Points
Introduction: Chip and Theresa discuss the learning curves, expectations they had, and communication challenges they had to navigate in their marriage.
Daily Spiritual Practices: They emphasized the importance of starting their day with prayer and Scripture reading.
Financial Transparency: They discuss financial matters, such as managing bills together.
Regular Family Meals: They strongly encourage eating together as a family to foster connection and communication.
Intimacy and Sex: They acknowledged the importance of scheduling intimacy and overcoming differences in sexual desires.
Lies About Marriage: They dispelled common lies about marriage, including the idea that a spouse can complete you and the notion of following your feelings.
Being a Light in the World: They highlighted the importance of having a healthy marriage that reflects the image of God and serves as a beacon of light in a dark world.
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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 | What are the habits or practices that make for a deep intimate great marriage? |
| 0:07.0 | Not one without problems, but one that really works. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, Teresa and I are going to share the habits and practices that have been the glue to our marriage |
| 0:17.0 | that's kept our relationship strong with God, with one another, |
| 0:21.0 | and helped us get through the storms. |
| 0:23.2 | Stay with me. |
| 0:24.7 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chipping Group. |
| 0:31.2 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry, motivating |
| 0:35.3 | Christians to live like Christians. And in just a minute we'll pick up in our new interview |
| 0:39.9 | series with Chip and Theresa Ingram as we continue celebrating their 45 years of marriage. |
| 0:46.4 | Last time they reflected on how God brought them together and the meaningful lessons they |
| 0:50.6 | learned in the first few years of marriage. Today they'll |
| 0:53.7 | learn in the first few years of marriage. |
| 0:53.2 | Today they'll highlight the habits and disciplines |
| 0:55.6 | they've committed to that have kept their relationship going. |
| 0:59.1 | So get a notepad ready or pull out your phone |
| 1:01.4 | because you'll want to jot these practices down and |
| 1:03.9 | apply them to your marriage. Okay let's get going here again is chip and |
| 1:07.4 | Teresa's daughter Annie to continue the conversation. |
| 1:11.8 | One of the things now that we've heard a lot of your early days, |
| 1:16.0 | now that you got married, |
| 1:18.0 | what were some of the learning curves that you experienced? |
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