This week we're doing something a little different on Inside the Chapel. Instead of hearing a message from a guest chaplain, the show's co-hosts, Ikki Soma and Reza Zadeh, have a conversation processing Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse a couple weeks and where their roles as chaplains come into play when something like that happens.

Soma serves with the NBA's Houston Rockets while Zadeh serves the Denver Broncos. Zadeh shares what it was like being in an NFL facility in the wake of the incident and gives some insight on how he and other NFL chaplains served their teams in the days that followed. Chaplain serve a unique role within professional sports organizations, and this conversation offers a peek into how important their role is during tragedies or hard circumstances.

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— Steelers Chaplain Kent Chevalier – ‘False Religion’

Christianity is considered a world religion, but it is not a religion. Christianity is a part of a bigger storyline of God’s desire to redeem and be reconciled to humanity.

What is religion? This week on "Inside the Chapel," Pittsburgh Steelers chaplain Kent Chevalier invites listeners in on an episode of his own podcast, "False Jesus."

Any world religion teaches that we must do something to reach God or be accepted by God. We purify ourselves. We pray in a certain way. We don’t eat certain foods. We achieve enlightenment. We make sure our good deeds outweigh our bad. Do these things and more, and we’ll be good with God.

On the other hand, Christianity alone teaches that Jesus has already done everything for you and me to reach God and be accepted by God. The reality is that there is nothing we can do that will make God love us more. There is nothing we can do that will make God love us less. God loves us. Period. And He wants a relationship with us.

Religion says we must do. Jesus said it’s already done. Of course, there’s way more to it, but this is the starting point and a massive difference between all world religions and God’s movement, now called Christianity.

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Houston Dash chaplain and Fellowship of Christian Athletes minister Fleceia Comeaux is back on "Inside the Chapel," this week to share a message from Mark 10:46. It's a story about Jesus meeting someone in a moment of need at the right time of need, then showing up in a way that only He can.

This is the fourth message in a series of chapel talks from Comeaux, who also serves as the coordinator of WNBA chaplains. One of the challenges laid out in this message is bring your specific requests to God. Rather than praying in generalities, what would it look like to lay out our specific needs when we go to God in prayer? Ponder that as your listen to this week's message.

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This week on "Inside the Chapel," Houston Rockets chaplain Malcolm Marshall shares a message on the importance of really knowing the essentials of the faith as a means to safeguard against deception. He challenges those in the locker room to become "a student of your faith." While knowing what you believe is important, it's essential that we know why we believe it, he says.

"When you're a student of your faith, you're in a position to see the deficits of His church and its people and not be swayed by that," he says. "Most deception occurs when a little bit of error is mixed with enough truth to make it believable."

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Is Jesus Christ really God?

This is a question humans have been wrestling with since the day Jesus was born. Even when he was in his mother’s womb. Different religions land on opposite sides when it comes to answering this question. Some say he was God. Some say he was a prophet of God. Some say he was an excellent teacher of Jewish Law with a unique rabbinic teaching method. Some say that he was just a good moral teacher. And still, some just don’t care.

This week on "Inside the Chapel," Pittsburgh Steelers chaplain Kent Chevalier lets listeners in on an episode of his own podcast, "False Jesus," where he explores claims that Jesus makes about himself:

You cannot believe one without believing the others. Either all these claims are true or none of them are true because these claims are tied to the person who’s making them. Join us as we explore those claims this week.

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Rutgers football team chaplain Tyler Stowell joins "Inside the Chapel" again, this time to share a message about the Lord's Prayer. Stowell takes a deep look at who the God is that we pray to in Heaven and what it means for Him to be "our" father. This message shows what prayer looks like and how relational God is. There's never a bad time to go our Father in prayer.

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We've heard the phrase and asked the question: "Who is the G.O.A.T." — the greatest of all time?

Every athlete pursues greatness, but being the greatest of all time in something is a feat only few can claim to have reached. On this week's episode, Denver Broncos team chaplain and "Inside the Chapel" co-host Reza Zadeh shares a message that he gave to a college football team from John 13 on what it looks like to pursue greatness.

"It's great for us to pursue being great at what God has called us to do, he says, but our problem isn't in pursuing greatness. It's in  how we define greatness. We try to be successful in the world's eyes, which doesn't always match being great and successful in God's kingdom. Listen in as he unpacks that concept.

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Houston Dash chaplain Fleceia Comeaux is back once again on "Inside the Chapel," this time to share a message from Acts 19:13-16 about seeking God first in everything. This is third in a series of messages from Comeaux, who else serves with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and as the coordinator of WNBA chaplains.

In this message, titled "Who Are You Seeking?" she challenges her team (and listeners) to ponder two questions:

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Ikki Soma is the Houston Rockets team chaplain and one of the co-hosts of "Inside the Chapel." He's also a lead campus pastor at Bayou City Fellowship in Houston, Texas. He brings the message this week with a sermon he preached at his home church.

The title of the sermon is "What We Have in Christ" and it centers on how Christians can access what God has planned for us.

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Jacksonville Jaguars chaplain, and former Jaguars star, Maurice Williams joins "Inside the Chapel" this week to share a message about perfectionism, comparison, and playing for an "audience of One."

Williams is a part of Athletes In Action, and this message is part of a series of messages we'll share on this podcast that feature sports chaplains honing their speaking skills in a cohort setting with other chaplains. In addition to his role as team chaplain, he's entering into his first season as head football coach at Providence School in the Jacksonville area.

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