Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Have you ever messed up big time?

I mean, the kind of sin that years later you still cringe when you think about it?

If that's where you are today, I want you to know you can begin again, you can be restored.

The joy that you once knew can be yours.

God wants to give it to you.

Stay with me and find out how.

As Christians, our strongest testimony to the world is rarely about our success.

It's often our recovery from failure.

Today, on Living on the Edge, Chipping Room elevates this scandalous truth. You see, God's

dream team includes liars, adulterers, and betrayers, yet they became his most beloved servants.

But here's the challenge. How do we pass this liberating truth to the next generation? If our kids have

ever felt disqualified by their past or trapped by secret shame,

God's grace will set them free. And then later in the program, we'll explain how you can take

advantage of the December match, empowering you to double the size and impact of your donation to

living on the edge. But right now, let's resume our study about leaving a legacy

that lasts forever. Sometimes stories have a tremendous power. I mean, people give us stories

and movies, and if you're a child, sometimes a parent will at nighttime read a story.

And rather than me tell you what a story says I'd like to do something

a little different I'd like to tell an accurate historical story of a fellow who is the most

powerful man in the world he had very very humble beginnings he was of a tribe that was sort of of the lower class,

and he was the youngest, and he went from being a shepherd boy

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