Spiritual Simplicity - Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
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Summary
Do you long to be loved for just being you - apart from your looks, money, or status? You can have that, but you need to be aware of some pitfalls along the way. Chip inspires us to stop looking for love in all the wrong places.
In a fallen world, our failures are often an attempt to obtain “good things” in a bad way.
- Seeking belonging leads to division.
- Seeking connection results in destructive relationships.
- Seeking security fuels greed.Seeking holiness can cause disunity.
- Seeking pleasure can harm others' faith.
- Summary: So many times our gravest failures are our attempts to “look for love in all the wrong places.
”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... (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. (1 Corinthians 13:6-8a).Practice: Love responds to failure with truth and grace by: Bearing all things, Believing all things: Hoping all things & Enduring all things
The Result: “LOVE never fails!”
The Application: Serving in Love: Romans 12:9-13
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| 0:00.0 | Do you long to be loved just for being you? |
| 0:04.0 | Do you long for people just to see you and know you and really love you? |
| 0:08.0 | Well, I got news for you. That's true of all of us, but there's a danger. |
| 0:12.0 | We tend to look for love in all the wrong places. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, we're going to learn how to avoid that pitfall. Stay with me. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with |
| 0:25.1 | Chip Ingram. The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians through |
| 0:30.3 | the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. You know, I think we all know someone who's trusted |
| 0:35.0 | the wrong person in a relationship. Or maybe you've experienced the pain of betrayal yourself. |
| 0:40.5 | Well, today, Chip explores the origins of our longing for connection and love |
| 0:44.4 | and explains how to steer clear of the common relational traps that many fall into. |
| 0:49.7 | So with that, here's Chip with his talk, looking for love in all the wrong places |
| 0:53.9 | from 1st Corinthians |
| 0:55.3 | chapter 13. |
| 0:57.6 | I think there's three things that are true of every person on this planet. |
| 1:03.0 | Number one, we all fail. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm just going to, I mean, even you, you know. |
| 1:08.6 | I mean, you can call it mess up, blow it, miss the mark. |
| 1:11.9 | I mean, every single person, every week fails. |
| 1:15.5 | Number two, we all have legitimate desires and needs that are God ordained that we pursue. |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, legitimate desires to be significant, to be loved, to give love, to be secure, to have |
| 1:31.5 | purpose that our lives would have an impact. |
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