Spiritual Simplicity - Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How would you like to simplify your life and at the same time experience more love than you ever thought possible? Join Chip as he shares a time-tested method for loving more by doing less.
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 | Does someone need you to believe in them today? Is there someone you know that a word from you, |
| 0:07.0 | an affirmation, a compliment, it'll change the course of their day and maybe the course of their life? |
| 0:13.6 | We're going to learn how to do that today. Stay with me. |
| 0:17.8 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international |
| 0:23.6 | teaching and discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians. We're in the middle of our series, spiritual simplicity, doing less, loving more. And I hope you learned a lot so far from Chip's study. And to help others learn as you have, take a minute after the message and share it. |
| 0:40.8 | You can do that through the Chip Ingram Map or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:45.2 | Thanks for spreading the word about how series like this one are impacting you. |
| 0:49.3 | All right, if you're ready, go in your Bible to 1st Corinthians chapter 13 as we join Chip for the remainder of his talk |
| 0:55.7 | looking for love in all the wrong places. Who in your world? Who in your world needs you to look |
| 1:05.2 | them into the eye and say, you know, yeah, you blew it or there is a struggle or this is a pattern in |
| 1:10.1 | your life, but I believe in you. |
| 1:13.2 | I care about you. I believe in you. There's a friend of mine who's an extraordinarily gifted |
| 1:20.3 | guy, and you ever watch people kind of get a lot of darts here and darts there? And I've seen him |
| 1:27.1 | recently. He's kind of discouraged and wasarts there. And I've seen him recently. |
| 1:27.6 | He's kind of discouraged and was more discouraged. |
| 1:30.3 | And as I was praying one morning, God just prompted me, you need to go sit down and talk |
| 1:34.7 | with this guy. |
| 1:35.9 | And so I did and ask him a few questions. |
| 1:39.0 | And as he began to share, I said, what time out? |
| 1:42.7 | Do you understand in your field, you're probably one of the top three in all of America? |
| 1:49.3 | Okay, maybe top five, I think three, two. |
| 1:53.7 | Do you understand God has used you to do this, this, this, this, and this? |
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