Serving - How to Deepen Your Love, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How do you feel when you’ve tried everything you know, and your attempts to show love to your spouse just don’t seem to be making any difference at all? Or maybe you’re on the flip-side and you’re waiting for the day when your spouse finally does something that makes you feel like they really care. In this program, Chip talks about how to love in a way that actually connects.

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.
0:14.2	We all know that the love that transforms is unconditional love.
0:19.8	And when we love our mates in the way that God loves us, great things
0:24.1	happen. But what's the practical way to do that? How do you love your mate in a way that
0:30.7	really makes sense to them? That's today. Stay with me. Have you ever felt like you and your spouse are missing each other?
0:39.3	You're both trying to show love, but somehow it's not landing.
0:43.3	Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram continues unpacking the five love languages.
0:48.3	Words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. When you discover which language
0:55.8	fills your spouse's emotional tank, everything shifts. Through biblical guidance and some
1:01.4	honest stories from his own marriage, Chip will help you identify what makes your spouse feel
1:06.4	truly loved. Well, here's Chip Ingram with a message titled, Serving How to Deepen Your Love.
1:13.1	We're going to learn the five languages of love, and I'm going to tell you it'll be the beginning
1:18.8	of a new day. I'll give you the picture of this is how this works. So my kind of one of my love
1:26.2	languages are words that affirm.
1:29.2	And another love language of mine is physical touch.
1:32.4	Probably after that is quality time.
1:34.7	And by God's grace, that quality time is probably her number two and my number two.
1:40.1	And so early in our marriage, I think I'm loving my wife.
1:42.6	And so I'm telling her, you look beautiful. I love you, verbal. I care for you. You're wonderful. And by the way, she doesn't say that to me. I'm an extrovert. She's an introvert. She doesn't say a lot. There's times we get in the car, and we're driving for 30 minutes. I grew up in a family where you didn't take turns, you just interrupted one another.
2:02.3	She came and visited my family, and it was like, these people are crazy.
2:05.9	She didn't get a word in edgewise.
2:08.2	Well, we're a verbal family.
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