Teach Them to Make Wise Choices, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What's the process for good, wise decisions? Chip lays out 4 ways to help children evaluate circumstances and make choices they'll be glad they made.

Transferable Concept #4: Teach them to make WISE choices.

A theology of holiness

God is high and holy, “TOTALLY other.” -Rev 4:8-11
God is absolute TRUTH. -Jn 14:6
God’s WORD defines absolute truth. -Jn 17:17
God’s LAW (morals) are for our protection. -Ps 119
God’s ultimate aim is to make us HOLY. -Rom 8:29
Old Testament roots -Ex 3:5-6; Is 6:1-8
Biblical profiles: Moses, Stephen
New Testament command: 1 Pt 1:15-16

Help them learn to make wise choices:

1. Encourage them to saturate their minds with the TRUTH. The Bible, great books, videos

-Rom 8:5-8, Jn 8:32

2. Encourage them to HANG OUT with wise, godly people. -Pr 13:20

3. Model for them how to ASK GOD for discernment and wisdom. -Ph 1:9-11, Jas 1:5

4. Teach them to monitor their EXPOSURE to the media.-Rom 12:2

Life message: Holy living allows you to experience God’s BEST for your life.

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0:00.0	Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:04.2	How do you get God's best for your life?
0:07.0	You know you see some believers and you sense, boy, they're in the right relationship,
0:11.0	they make wise decisions about money, they're getting God's best.
0:14.5	I want that.
0:15.5	How does it work?
0:16.5	Today I will give you four biblical principles that will help you discover how you can get God's
0:22.8	best for your life. Stay with us.
0:26.7	Holiness is a word that intimidates most of us. It's an unachievable virtue. Or so it seems.
0:33.3	What if everything you've been told about holiness is wrong? What if God's call to holy living isn't about following a list of don'ts,
0:40.9	but about discovering the pathway to extraordinary joy,
0:44.9	fulfilling relationships, and a life that truly works?
0:48.4	On today's edition of Living on the Edge,
0:51.0	Chip Ingram dismantles our misconceptions about holiness
0:53.7	and reveals it for what it really is. Wholeness, health, and the edge. Chip Ingram dismantles our misconceptions about holiness and reveals it for what
0:55.0	it really is. Wholeness, health, and the key to experiencing God's absolute best. Far from
1:01.7	being otherworldly or strange, holy living makes us winsome, loving, pure, and unmistakably
1:08.1	Christ-like, the kind of person others are drawn to. And after Chip's message
1:12.8	will explain how you can participate in the time-limited match that's active a short while longer.
1:18.7	Every dollar you give will be matched and therefore doubled through December 31st. But right now,
1:24.3	the message from Chip Ingram about leaving a legacy that lasts forever.
1:28.9	Number one, encourage them to saturate their mind with truth.
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