The Chaplain's Chair

15/06/2024

26/04/2024

Latest episode!

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, …

24/03/2024

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 t...

17/02/2024

Probably one of my most challenging episodes...

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 spiritu...

04/02/2024

So I'm learning how to set these podcasts to video in preparation for doing some video podcasts.

“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

29/01/2024

Borrowed from James H. Melton:

"Why isn't the Bible being taught in our churches?" By the term "being taught," I am referring to correct, sound, doctrinal teaching. The average preacher stands in the pulpit and SAYS he's teaching the Bible without ever really teaching it. He is filling a time slot that he calls teaching without actually teaching. He might be promoting or cheerleading the Bible, but he isn't properly teaching it. If he were, his members wouldn't be looking elsewhere to learn the Book.

Now, WHY ISN'T HE TEACHING THE BOOK? I have three quick reasons. No doubt, there are more, but here are three . . .

1. He doesn't KNOW the Bible. His Bible "education" was either a matter of watching other Bible cheerleaders or a matter of watching Laodicean professors summarize, outline, and even correct the Bible. He can't teach because he hasn't been taught.

2. He's a coward. He might know the Book, but he doesn't love it enough to teach it against the grain of modern-day fundamentalism. He's been taught to "behave himself," else he'll not get to preach anywhere. He fears his members, maybe his wife, the deacon board, his preacher peers and the "leaders" of the IFB movement, but he doesn't fear God. He's a coward.

3. He has fouled-up priorities. His primary ministry focus is tallying-up professions, counting baptisms, growing church membership, increasing the offering and faith-promise missions, and keeping the membership showered with enough church activities that they won't leave the religious plantation for worldly fun. In all of this church stuff, the Bible usually takes a back seat.

If your preacher isn't effectively preaching AND TEACHING the Book without fear or favor, find one who will . . . and be ready to pay the price."

27/01/2024

The latest episode!

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...

19/01/2024

First episode of 2024! Hoping the is the first of many this coming year!

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’...

28/12/2023

In the end, it's ALL theological, isn't it? It comes down to the heart of men...fallen men...to do what is right, and leave the results and consequences of our moral action to He Who authored the standards.

And that standard is the Word of God and person of Jesus Christ. And God has not put those standards up for negotiation...

22/12/2023

The older I get, the more I relate...

07/12/2023

Indeed...and the world could use a little bit of all of its benefits.

04/12/2023

From my morning study: "Once you deny God's presence and reject supernatural revelation, you are left in a waste-howling wilderness of relatives and variables and anarchists, where "anything goes."

I offer you America in 2023.