The Chaplain's Chair

The Chaplain's Chair is a distinctly Christian podcast about faith, life, and the conversations that matter.

Author and Christian board-certified chaplain Tim Lajoie shares stories and reflections from hospice, corrections, ministry, leadership, and everyday life—grounded in biblical truth and honest conversation.

Chaplain care is soul care, and soul care begins with telling you the truth.

So pull up a chair.

Today we’re going to be wrapping up that series of podcasts “Can I Know God: What is God Like?” by looking at those qualities or attributes that He shares with US, humans. The last podcast we looked at those attributes that are uniquely His. But, since God created man with the desire to walk and fellowship with him—as is evidenced by His interactions with Adam in the Garden, these attributes have been passed through the descendants of Adam to us.

We have seen the all too common and well-worn

This is my special Easter podcast where we will be learning about the RESURRECTION of the Lord Jesus Christ. This may be review for some of you, or it may be new knowledge for some of you. It might be too deep for some, too shallow for others.

Either way, we are going to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ today. One of the frustrations I have had with Easter sermons over the years—and I’ll add Passion Week sermons over the years—is that they make the crucifixion and the resurrection a topical issue, not a deeply theological issue. We learn of the Lord Jesus dying on a cross and learn He rose from the dead. 

And in this vein—as it’s presented--it’s seen as just one of many paths to God. It’s simply a story meant to inspire commitment to a cause—the same way some heroic

He died for your sins. Okay. He rose from the grave. Okay. Why do I need to know that? Why do I need to embrace that? And that’s the urgency. And that urgency requires decisions be made about it—personal decisions about what it means for your life. We need to know WHAT we should we do—and we can’t do that until we

This week’s podcast is going to look at the climax of Passion Week, the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and what that means for us. I limit the application to Jesus’ suffering in Gethsemane, His betrayal, arrest, faux trial and beatings, His scourging, His condemnation to death in a mock trial, suffering that brutal walk to the hill of the cross, His agonizing hours on the cross, His cry of loneliness in His final minutes, His final breath, the lancing of His side, and His burial in a borrowed tomb secured by a Roman guard.

“Passion” means something someone suffered.

Continuing our studies in Biblical doctrine and practical theology in this podcast, which is a fancy way of saying "What does the Bible teach and how does it apply to my life?" We started out with why the Bible is important to your life and I'm now into the question of "Can I know

Recognize something about addiction, folks. It is first and foremost a SPIRITUAL BATTLE. Don’t let a society that doesn’t believe in God tell you different. The medical and psychological labeling of addiction is just that: a medical and psychological term used to describe a fundamentally spiritual issue. It may become medical, it may become psychological—and medical and psychological remedies may help in the short-term…but it starts spiritual—and spiritual remedies are the only thing in my mind that help in the long-term.

I am going to present a basic fact. There is ZERO, indisputable proof that there is no God. Atheists are out of their minds when

But let's examine some facts and begin to answer some question about the existence of God.

“Who is God?” “And can we know Him?” In this podcast we are going to get a little deep and look at SPECIAL revelation. What is that? Well, special revelation is God directly inserting Himself into our world and showing Himself.

Can you know? Or are all of us just taking a guess? Is it a cosmic joke, with a council of deities in the heavens having a big laugh at us groping around for the answer? Are we playing a shell game of "find the god?" Watching an inter-galactic episode of "To Tell the Truth?" Will the REAL God please stand up?

Are there reasons to believe in God? Can we know God? The short answer is: Yes!

In the episode of the podcast we begin to take a look at the revelation God has left for us so that we might believe, know Him, and apply that knowledge to our lives. Have a seat and let's have a conversation!