Serving - How to Deepen Your Love, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this program, Chip shares four biblical principles that set the tone and establish the foundation for the rest of these programs. He starts with a very concrete look at what love is - and what love is not.
How do you keep love alive?
- Ephesians 5:25-33
- Very rarely, do we take how Jesus loves the Church and use that as our model for how we are to love one another in marriage.
- Your marriage is not just about your PERSONAL fulfillment. -John 13:1-17, 33-35
- Other than the Church of Jesus Christ, your relationship with your mate is the single most powerful testimony of the reality of God.
Principles:
- Love is not a FEELING.
- Love is SERVING. -Philippians 2:3-4
- Love must be RECEIVED.
- Love is UNCONDITIONAL.
Practical Implications:
- Love is a CHOICE.
- Love MEETS the NEEDS of the one loved.
- Love requires extreme HUMILITY and SECURITY.
Learn the five languages of love
- Words of affirmation
- Quality time
- Receiving gifts
- Acts of service
- Physical touch
Two clues as to what your love language is:
- What bothers you the most?
- What do you ask for the most?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | How do you keep love in marriage alive? I mean the glow after the honeymoon wears off, |
| 0:20.0 | where life settles into those routines and daily |
| 0:23.5 | demands. How do you build a marriage that is fresh and really last? That's today. Stay with me. |
| 0:31.5 | The honeymoon is over. The romance has faded. You're grinding through routines and wondering if this is all there is. |
| 0:39.6 | Sound familiar? |
| 0:41.1 | Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram shows us how Jesus modeled the kind of love that keeps marriages alive. |
| 0:47.9 | In John Chapter 13, Jesus did something shocking the night before his crucifixion. |
| 0:53.1 | He washed his disciples' feet. And in that act, |
| 0:56.8 | he revealed the secret to deepening love in any relationship. It's not about feelings. It's about |
| 1:02.5 | choosing to serve when you don't feel like it. Through practical biblical principles, |
| 1:07.6 | Chip will show you how to communicate love in ways your spouse actually receives. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, here's Chip. |
| 1:14.3 | The overarching theme is how to keep love alive, and I'm going to talk about four biblical practices |
| 1:20.0 | that great marriages have in common. |
| 1:22.3 | One book that if you haven't read, it is so worth it, and I'll be talking a little bit more about it later, is the five languages of love. And in the introduction, Gary Chapman talks about being on a plane, and he sits next to a guy and one thing comes to another, and he says, what do you do for living? He goes, well, I'm a marriage counseling, and I do seminars, and I write books on marriage. He said, well, this is my lucky day. And he said, |
| 1:44.9 | you know, I love it like you're in love, but does anyone ever keep love alive? I mean, is it |
| 1:52.4 | possible? I mean, do people just say, I guess marriages are mostly empty and you just grind it out? |
| 2:00.1 | He said, is there any way to keep love alive? |
| 2:02.9 | And of course, Gary Chapman in his book talks about that in love, euphoric, over the top, |
| 2:09.6 | dissipates. |
| 2:10.7 | But the need to feel loved never goes away. |
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