Serving - How to Deepen Your Love
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Did you know there’s a single word that sums up the whole of a happy marriage? It’s the key to everything you’ve ever wanted in a secure, satisfying marriage relationship. In this message, Chip shares the missing link to most failing marriages and why it’s central to enjoying the marriage you’ve always hoped for. If you have a good marriage, what Chip shares will help you build on that success and deepen the love you’re already experiencing.
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 | This is the Chip Ingram Sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. |
| 0:06.8 | In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.9 | Well, here's Chip Ingram with a message titled, Serving How to Deepen Your Love. |
| 0:18.0 | My father was in military, Guam, Iwo Jima, Purple Heart. |
| 0:22.0 | My wife's father, military, lost a brother on a ship. |
| 0:27.7 | Both of our fathers came out of World War II, alcoholics. |
| 0:32.3 | We came from not healthy backgrounds, so we brought that into our marriage. My wife married early to get out of the |
| 0:40.4 | house, had a not good experience. Married young, put a guy through college. He started selling |
| 0:45.8 | drugs, ran off with another woman. She had two little boys, she was a single mom for a while. |
| 0:52.5 | So I got to know her as a friend for a year or so, |
| 0:55.2 | and then later we got married. So blended family, lots of baggage, alcoholic past, |
| 1:01.9 | God calls us in the ministry. I've never met anyone who loves God more than my wife. And I've |
| 1:06.9 | never met anyone that makes me more crazy than that woman right there. |
| 1:12.8 | We couldn't resolve anger. We couldn't resolve conflict. |
| 1:14.9 | I mean, like, it was like, |
| 1:17.4 | we put everything in a truck within six months |
| 1:19.7 | after we got married, |
| 1:21.0 | and after I'd been a school teacher |
| 1:23.1 | and a basketball coach, and I'd play ball overseas, |
| 1:26.5 | and it was like within six months, it was like, |
| 1:28.2 | what have we done? I mean, we were a mess. And within the first year, by God's grace, where I went to |
| 1:36.5 | seminary, guy named Paul Meyer, was teaching a class of the Meyerman in Earth Clinic and went |
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