The Chaplain's Chair

The Chaplain's Chair

By Chaplain Tim LajoieReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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The Chaplain's Chair episodes

  • Why is the Bible Important to Your Life?

    We can teach and preach “theology” all day long but if we can’t discover how it applies to your life—how it looks in real life and what it means to YOU—the study of it isn’t going to amount to much.

    I had a Bible college professor once who said “He who reads the newspaper knows what’s going on in the world. He who reads

    the Bible knows why they are happening.”

    I want to make the Bible relevant to you—because it IS relevant to you—in more ways than you think.

    22 min
  • Jonah, Jesus, & The Resurrection from the Dead

    The great miraculous sign of Jonah is NOT that he SURVIVED three days and three nights in the “belly of the whale.” It’s that after being stone-cold dead for that long, God brought him out of the state of the dead, put life back in his body, and had the whale spit him back on to the earth, and let him accomplish the mission He gave him to preach to the Gentiles in the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. This should NOT come as a surprise to anyone.

    44 min
  • Ponder Good Friday

    It's hard to find any trace of Christianity in America, even in its most sacred week. It's easy to get discouraged and distracted by the static that seeks to attack and minimize our faith in Jesus Christ. So what do we do about that? How do we focus on Jesus during this most sacred of weeks? We do what Mary did? We ponder and we praise.

    24 min
  • "Judge Not? You'd Better Be Judging!”Part 2
    Virtually every godless, hedonistic, humanistic rebellion against God’s design has been given a pass because the individual Christian—whether in the pulpit, the pew, or his community—has been intimidated into silence because they misunderstand or don’t know what the Bible says about judging. They allow themselves to come under conviction because, you know—being “judgmental” is supposed to be a bad thing. Well, it’s a “bad thing” only to those who don’t like to have any boundaries on their behavior or thought, especially DIVINE judging of their behavior.
    32 min
  • Get Right With God--A New Year's Resolution

    This is the time of year when people make resolutions—to lose weight, to stop smoking, to stop drinking, to exercise more, to be better husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, any number of things to change that which we believe will make us better people in the coming year. Perhaps YOU have made some of those resolutions this year, perhaps you have already given up on a resolution, since we’re in the middle of January as of the publication of this podcast. No matter. What I want to talk to you about in this podcast is a resolution you cannot break, cannot fail, and will make you a better person. It will equip you with the tools necessary to keep all those other resolutions. What is it, you ask? Get right with God. Enter into…or strengthen…your relationship with GOD. That’s the resolution you need to make this year.

    35 min
  • Judge Not? You'd Better Be Judging!
    Judging. The most controversial topic in the Christian faith. We’ve heard it.
    · Who are you to judge me?
    · The Bible says not to judge.
    · The most quoted Bible verse by a non-believer in response to a Christian verbalizing his values is “Judge not” or “Judge not, lest ye be judged” from the book of Matthew, chapter 7, which, by the way, is only quoting a small piece of the context given in that passage. We’ll get into that later.
    Virtually every godless, hedonistic, humanistic rebellion against God’s design has been given a pass because the individual Christian—whether in the pulpit, the pew, or his community—has been intimidated into silence because they misunderstand or don’t know what the Bible says about judging.
    In the first of what I expect will be several future podcasts on judging, we’re going to look over some scriptural examples of the word JUDGE—the noun and the verb in DIVINE and HUMAN action. The standards are different. The authority is different and we must be very careful—in our zeal to be discerning, in our desire to be righteous and holy, and in our zeal to represent Christ to our fellow man—that we don’t usurp the authority of God in matters that are uniquely His to rule and act on. It is here where the Christian gets in trouble. It is here where the Christian finds himself “holier than thou.” And it is here where the Christian zeal becomes an obstacle to the lost sinner and the Shepherd Who can save them. Let’s not be THAT Christian.
    24 min
  • We Need God's Men

    Now more than ever we need the men of God to stand up. Spiritual warfare is upon us, whether we believe it or not. It is God's design for men to take a Biblical stand to protect their families, their homes, and their society. It falls on them to stand firm for God.

    35 min
  • Our Great Salvation: Jesus Christ

    Salvation. What is it? There is no gray area in that question in the Christian faith; there is no neutrality on this issue—we must have a position on this as Christians. And this is an area where I think holding on to our traditions interferes with a right relationship with God, today and in the future. Adherence to a list of dos and don'ts is not what God is looking for. It's not the "great salvation" He offers. 

    20 min
  • Practical Christianity: Reject the World and Change Your Thinking

    This is part two of Practical Christianity, where we examine the answer to the question: What does it mean to “live” as a Christian? In last week’s podcast we examined offering up our lives as a “living sacrifice, which was “reasonable service” to God. In short, it means to embrace God out of gratitude and live a holy life. Today we’re going to examine the 2nd part: rejecting this present world and renewing our minds—to correct and alter our thinking to a Godly mindset.

    41 min

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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…