Spiritual Simplicity - In the Name of Love, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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Summary
According to a recent survey, one of this year’s top resolutions was to live more simply. The question is, how do you REALLY simplify your life? Chip outlines a plan that will help you cut through the noise and begin simplifying your life today.
Learning to love in “Real Time”
- Responding to Hurts:Truth: Love is patient and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4a); Practice: When hurt, love absorbs the blow and responds with kindness.
- Responding to Differences:Truth: Love does not envy or boast; it is not rude, self-seeking, easily angered, or does it keep a record of wrongs (1 Corinthians 13:4b-5); Practice: Celebrate differences and refuse to compare (1 Corinthians 12:12-31).
- Responding to Failure:Truth: Love doesn't delight in evil but rejoices with truth.... Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:6-8a); Practice: Love responds to failure with truth and grace.
- Responding to Misplaced Priorities:Truth: Love never fails... (1 Corinthians 13:8-13); Practice: Love ruthlessly refuses to allow temporal “good” things to crowd out the eternal “best” things.
The Supremacy of Love
- Love is supreme & our ultimate goal (1 Corinthians 13:8a).
- Application: Separate from the world's values (Romans 12:2).
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| 0:00.0 | According to a recent survey, we want to reduce the clutter, the stress, the ongoing chaos of our busy lives. |
| 0:08.0 | But the big question is, how do you really simplify your life? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, today we're going to talk about a plan that will help you cut through the noise and to begin to simplify your life today. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay with me. You're going to love it. Thank you for being with us for this |
| 0:23.9 | edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global |
| 0:29.4 | teaching and discipleship ministry helping Christians develop an authentic faith. In just a minute, |
| 0:35.4 | Chip will pick up where he left off last time in our series |
| 0:37.8 | Spiritual Simplicity. For the past several programs, Chip's taught through 1st Corinthians 13, |
| 0:44.1 | highlighting our need to declutter our busy lives and embrace an intentional, loving mindset. |
| 0:50.1 | So if you've missed any part of this study, it's not too late to catch up, either through |
| 0:54.3 | Living on the Edge.org or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:58.6 | Well, with that, here's Chip to share the remainder of his talk in the name of love. |
| 1:03.1 | You know what? I wonder what would have happened if we would have eaten together three or four times a week? |
| 1:09.0 | I wonder what would have happened if instead of being so |
| 1:11.9 | busy, I actually blocked off the first 30 minutes of every day and talked with God so I could keep |
| 1:17.2 | my priorities straight. I wonder what would have happened instead of, you know, two or three hours |
| 1:21.9 | every night just to wind down and watching fairly mindless TV. If I would have spent some time investing in the things that |
| 1:29.8 | matter and the people that matter and giving attention to the things that I know that would last. |
| 1:35.0 | This is what the Apostle Paul is saying. He's saying this is how love responds to misplaced priorities. |
| 1:41.9 | And then he gives us a solution. I love the Bible. |
| 1:44.8 | It's not just, you know, he's saying, you know, |
| 1:46.6 | you could be successful in business or finances |
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