“Perhaps the only redeeming aspect of shame is that even though it (shame) usually results in guilt and self-deprecation, shame can also lead us to God and His answers. It sends us in search of a Savior. . . . We instinctively know we need someone to rescue us from this debilitating force. And in […]
“Shame rarely shows up on the surface. It’s one of those hidden secrets in our soul, something we carry behind our masks, an unchecked spiritual and emotional wound that seems to scar us for life. . . . Shame disguises itself as your true self, but it isn’t. It feels like it’s rooted in who […]
“We are being transformed through a joint venture between the Holy Spirit and our own willingness to cooperate with Him. Transformation is a process, and you will find that your relationship with God is determined by your relationship with His Word.”- Chip Ingram “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed […]
“If we don’t understand who God is and what He has done, we begin to look for security in all the wrong places and pain is multiplied in our lives. God wants us to avoid all of that frustration and futility.”- Chip Ingram “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angels or […]
“God’s ultimate purpose is not to make us more insecure. It’s to acquaint us with His ways, strengthen our faith, try our character, and anchor our hope in God alone. Paradoxically, the things we become most insecure about are often designed to increase our sense of security.”- Chip Ingram “And surely I am with you […]
“As with Joseph, our journey toward fulfillment of God’s purpose for our lives rarely looks like a direct route. In fact, it can be disorienting. When we experience a few setbacks, we start to wonder . . . if our desires and God’s plans for us will ever be fulfilled.”- Chip Ingram “God has said, […]
“A universal aspect of our fallen nature is deep-seated insecurity. . . . Until we find our security in God, it is universal. Insecurity goes down to the rest of our being. Behind every mask is an insecurity about our true identity and our place in this world.”- Chip Ingram “God is our refuge and […]
“Radical transformations take time and require an intentional, systematic process. This is a journey for all of us, an ongoing, replenishing process of identifying the lies, calling them what they are, and replacing them with the truth. . . . Mental assent is just the beginning; we change when the truth affects us emotionally and […]
“Regardless of whatever problems, struggles, challenges, pains, and wounds you’ve experienced, regardless of what lies you’ve believed, and regardless of how you happen to feel about yourself at the moment, you are worth the blood of Christ.”- Chip Ingram “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the […]
“Every single person desperately craves authentic acceptance — someone to see through our exterior to the good, bad, and ugly inside, and accept and love us in spite of what they see. We may be blessed to get that from some significant people in our lives, but the first person we need to look to […]
“The search for identity is closely related to the search for significance, because we can’t know how valuable we are until we know who we are. We all fall back on looking for our identity in certain people or things from time to time.”- Chip Ingram As Chip Ingram moves on in Chapter 3 of […]
“Most people, including myself, who know the right answers, still have strong, unhealthy motives driving them. . . . Every one of us has looked for our identity in something or someone other than Jesus. . . . I’ve realized there is almost no limit to the ways we seek validation.”- Chip Ingram In Chapter […]