Have you ever forgiven someone who hurt you, only to have resentful feelings begin to fester a short time later? How does that scenario change when it is your spouse who caused you pain? In this program, Chip explains why forgiveness is a powerful skill couples need to harness. Learn about the dangers of unresolved conflict in relationships and the freedom that comes when you genuinely say, “I forgive you.”

Introduction:

• The foundation of a great family begins with a deep, intimate marriage.

Three skills for a great marriage:

• Skill #1: FORGIVING
• Skill #2: COMMUNICATION
• Skill #3: RESOLVING CONFLICT

Forgiveness – What it’s not and what it is:

• Forgiveness is NOT a quick fix or an excuse to be a “doormat” by repeatedly accepting hurtful behavior without addressing the root issues
• Forgiveness IS a spiritual discipline that involves three distinct parts:

1. It’s a DECISION
2. It’s a PROCESS
3. It actually is ACCOMPLISHED

The parable of the unforgiving servant:

• Matthew 18:21-35

Three-part method for forgiveness:

1. Act: Choose to forgive.
2. Process: Actively pray and bless the person with your words and actions.
3. Accomplished: The true test of forgiveness is when you can genuinely rejoice in the other person’s success and well-being.

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There is no shortage of great podcasts, popular books, and helpful resources to help you strengthen your marriage. But in this program, Chip explains that there’s one simple discipline that, if you commit to it, you will transform your relationship. Listen in to learn what this fundamental habit is and the steps you can follow to make it a daily priority in your life.

Introduction:

God’s original design:

• Marriage was created as a sacred stewardship to reflect the unity and love of the Trinity.

Satan’s agenda:

• To destroy or pervert marriage by telling lies that make it self-centered

Foundational Marriage Truths

Foundational truth #1:

• In my own strength, I am INCAPABLE of being the husband of wife God calls me to be. Therefore, my first priority for a successful marriage is my own vibrant DAILY walk with God. By His Word and His Spirit in community with fellow believers God will give me ALL I need to become a loving and godly husband or wife.

Key verses:

• 2 Peter 1:3-4
• Galatians 2:20

The BIO Acronym:

• B: Before God Daily
• I: In community
• O: On mission

Foundational truth #2:

• I will CHOOSE to love my mate by God’s power and grace in all circumstances. Love is giving another person what they NEED the most, when they DESERVE it the least, at great PERSONAL COST.

Key verse:

• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

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The Apostle Paul reminds us in Ephesians that a Christian’s battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of darkness. Join us as Chip exposes powerful lies that have misled believers for centuries and are undermining the institution of marriage.

The command: Walk differently

• Walking worthy of your CALLING -Ephesians 4:1, 17
• Walking in LOVE, like Christ -Ephesians 5:2
• Walking as children of LIGHT -Ephesians 5:8
• Walking not as unwise, but as WISE -Ephesians 5:15

How?

• By letting your relationship with God—with Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit—be the one central, most important thing that focuses your mind around the truth of how to live. -Ephesians 5:15-20
• By applying the instructions for the Spirit-filled life to the family structure. -Ephesians 5:21-6:4

The ultimate context:

• The armor of God is detailed immediately after family instructions to frame the family as a primary spiritual battlefield for fighting lies. -Ephesians 6:10-18

Fighting for your family

• Identify lies and understand where they come from and what they do.
• Understand that lies make it impossible for children to grow up in a safe, stable, supportive environment where they feel valued, encouraged, and supported.
• Recognize that the most dangerous lies are the ones that you believe to the point where you think it’s good.

The family as a witness

• Few things will be more important to show the world the love of Christ than marriages that reflect Jesus and His Church.
• Our mission: To show the world that there is hope by identifying lies in our families and culture, and building Spirit-powered homes that glorify God.

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Could there ever be too much kindness, too much forgiveness, too much love? When was the last time you heard someone say, "Love? I'm good. I really don't need any more."? God's love is infinite. God's love is matchless. God's love is perfect. Join Chip as he defines God's love and what it means.

Introduction - Three facts about love

Fact #1: It’s a universal need - Everyone is looking for love!

Fact #2: There’s a universal solution - God loves all people everywhere and longs to meet the deepest needs of every heart for love!

Fact #3: There’s a tragic disconnection - Even so, most people remain starved for love… for three primary reasons:

1. They don’t know God loves them.
2. They know of God’s love, but have not received it.
3. They have received God’s love, but don’t know how to experience it in daily life.

Love is giving another person what they need the most, when they deserve it the least, at great personal cost.

God reveals His love to us through:

• CREATION - He made you for Himself.
• PROVIDENCE - He shows His kindness to all.
• INCARNATION - He is proactively pursuing you.
• DISCIPLINES - He chastises us to protect us from self-destructive behavior.
• INDWELLING - He supernaturally pours His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
• JESUS – The Second Person of the Trinity demonstrated the nature of God’s love for us.

How must we respond to God’s love?

1. We must RECEIVE IT by faith in our hearts. -John 3:16, 1:12
2. We must BELIEVE IT by faith in our minds. -1 John 4:13-16, Romans 8:38-39
3. We must SHARE IT by faith through our choices and decisions. -1 John 3:18

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God is holy, and He wants us to be holy, but how do we do that? What’s it really look like to be holy? Do we have to give up everything fun? Do we have to be serious 24/7 and keep a perfect, holy checklist? Join Chip for the surprising answer.

Defining the Holiness of God:

• “We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God’s power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.” -A. W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

How does God reveal His holiness to us?

• Through SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTERS
• Through PLACES
• Through the LAW
• Through the PROPHETS
• Through His WRATH and JUDGMENT
• Through His SON
• Through His PEOPLE

God’s holiness raises two important questions:

1. If God is so holy that He cannot even gaze at sin, how can sinful people like us have a relationship with Him? -Romans 5:6-10
2. If trusting in Christ’s work on the cross blots out our sin before God and we are holy in His sight, why do we keep on sinning?

• Justification: Positional holiness - Point-in-time status with God
• Sanctification: Progressive holiness - Ongoing improvement
• Glorification: Permanent holiness - We are finally like Him

How must we respond to the holiness of God?

• It’s a COMMITMENT we make. -Hebrews 12:14
• It’s a COMMAND we obey. -1 Peter 1:13-16, Hebrew 13:4

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What would you do if a loved one suddenly died in a car crash, or was the victim of a mass shooting, or a natural disaster? How are you expected to go on with your life when someone so important is here one minute and gone the next? In this powerful broadcast, you will hear the captivating first half of a testimony from a man who persevered through an unimaginable tragedy. Hear how, despite the tremendous pain and grief he experienced, he chose to put his trust in God, and what we can learn from his incredibly robust faith.

Introduction

• Guy's background: Fellow believer from the UK, husband to Hazel, and father of two.
• He shares the early challenges his family faced.

Finding a Way Through Grief

• Guy describes an unimaginable tragedy in his family and the ensuing struggles with overwhelming grief.
• He found strength in his strong community of believers and used Chip’s book, The A.R.T. of Survival, as a daily “field manual."
• He made a daily choice to focus on his attitude and ask "what" instead of "why."

Victory Through Faith

• His faith in God's promises gave him hope.
• Guy's profound act of forgiveness had a powerful impact.
• He embraced a new calling to help others find purpose in their pain.

Closing

• Guy's advice: Don’t suffer in silence; be vulnerable and seek help.
• He reminds listeners that it's okay not to be okay and that God offers restoration.

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What comes to mind when you think about God? Who do you imagine Him to be? Your answers to these questions are the most important thing about you. Chip explores how our perception of God radically alters our view of reality.

The importance of this study:

• “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” -A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy
• “We tend, by a secret law of the soul, to move toward our mental image of God.” -A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

How to see the real God, with 20/20 vision:

Three facts to consider:

1. God is not LIKE YOU! -Isaiah 40:25-28, Romans 11:33-36
2. Left to ourselves, we tend to REDUCE God to MANAGEABLE TERMS! -Romans 1:21-23, Exodus 32:1-6
3. God can only be known as He REVEALS HIMSELF to us! Through:

• NATURE -Psalm 19:1-2, Romans 1:19-20
• HIS WORD -John 1:1-4, 5:37-40
• JESUS, His SON -John 1:14-18, Hebrews 1:1-3

One question for you:

• What must I do to see the real God and He really is?

Answer:

• SEEK HIM -Jeremiah 29:11-14a

How?

• Proverbs 2:1-5

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So what would you do for love? Maybe it’s better said, what have you done for love? In this message, Chip explains that God designed you to give and receive love, and it can be better than you thought possible, but you have to be willing to do one thing.

Learning to love in “Real Time”

1. Responding to Hurts:Truth: Love is patient and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4a); Practice: When hurt, love absorbs the blow and responds with kindness.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. 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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Do you wish you could just put the brakes on the speed of life? Between work, family, ministry, financial pressures, health issues, is it any wonder that our lives and our relationships are on the ragged edge? If you’re ready to start loving more by doing less, then join Chip as he begins his series called "Spiritual Simplicity"

• 4 words drive our lives, our schedules, our relationships, and our souls...

Bigger - Better - Faster - More

• Is it really possible to break free of our high speed, high pressure, high demand, guilt producing dis-ease of our complex lives?

1. What do you want to be known for?
2. If you could only be known for one thing, what would it be?

• 1 overarching principle:

Anything minus LOVE = Nothing

Everything minus LOVE = Nothing

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

• Summarizing love’s supremacy

Performing in your world with the greatest gifts and abilities…without love MEANS nothing!

Possessing the best, the finest, the most amazing things you can imagine …without love you BECOME nothing!

Sacrificially providing for those you love, the greatest cause on earth…without love PROFITS you nothing!

• A prescription for transformation

Rx1 – Focus

Rx2 – Love more!

Rx3 – Redefine success

• If love is the answer, what is love?

What it’s not & What it is (described in 1 Corinthians 13:4)

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Setting priorities, putting first things first is important. The question is how do you keep those priorities in place? Chip explores the essential elements that must be in place in order for you to be able to keep your priorities in line over the long haul.

The Problem: Many start well, but few finish well.

The Answer: Biblical Accountability

• Definition: Biblical Accountability is enlisting the support of those who love me to help me keep my commitments to God.
• Its Power: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

The Need: Why accountability is essential for spiritual success

Five Reasons:

1. Because we never outgrow the need for PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY. -1 Corinthians 9:34-27
2. Because past successes are no guarantee of FUTURE FAITHFULNESS. -1 Corinthians 10:1-5
3. Because we constantly underestimate the power of our own SINFUL PASSIONS. -1 Corinthians 10:6-11
4. Because we constantly overestimate our ability to handle TEMPTATION. -1 Corinthians 10:12
5. Because we naively believe our struggles and temptations are UNIQUE. -1 Corinthians 10:13

Summary: "Therefore, my beloved, flee from IDOLATRY!” -1 Corinthians 10:14

The Means: “How to” develop accountability in relationships:

• It begins at HOME.
• In an atmosphere of LOVE.
• It must be voluntary and by PERMISSION.
• It must be SPECIFIC, not generic.
• It must be REGULAR, not sporadic.
• No more than 4 PEOPLE.

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