Balancing Life's Demands - Warning: Personal Discipline Can be Hazardous to Your Health, Part 1
Podcast: Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily PodcastPublished On: Tue Aug 12 2025
Description: In this message, Chip reveals the danger of becoming too disciplined in both your personal and spiritual life. He shares how to recognize the warning signs of an out-of-balance spiritual life.To what degree have you taken specific steps in the following areas? (1=none; 2=little; 3=started & doing okay; 4=making good progress; 5=vigorously pursuing)Objectives: Moving from vague ideas to specific decisions about the kind of person I want to become and what I want to accomplish.Priorities: Ordering my life in such a way that the important and eternal are not forfeited by the "pressing" and the "urgent."Schedule: Determining specifically how and when I will place the important and eternal in my daily life.Discipline: Doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done.Accountability: Enlisting the support of those who love me to help me keep my commitments to God.Jesus' Warning #1: In our pursuit of "seeking first" His righteousness there is the danger of DISTORTION.Application of Matthew 5:20 to...Murder –5:21-26Adultery –5:27-30Divorce –5:31-32Oaths –5:33-37Retribution –5:38-41Enemies –5:43-48Jesus' Warning #2: In our pursuit of "seeking first" His righteousness there is also the danger of DECEPTION. -Matthew 6:1-18Giving: Key Issue = MOTIVE -Matthew 6:1-4Prayer: Key Issue = DISCERNMENT -Matthew 6:5-8Fasting: Key Issue = PERSPECTIVE -Matthew 6:16-18Application: SECRECY is God's method of keeping our motives pure.Broadcast Resource'Balancing Life's Demands' ResourcesMessage NotesAdditional Resource MentionsSmall Group ResourcesConnect888-333-6003WebsiteChip Ingram AppInstagramFacebookTwitterPartner With UsDonate Online888-333-6003
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