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The Chaplain's Chair
by Chaplain Tim
"The Chaplain's Chair" is a thought-provoking podcast on religion, faith, family and, yes, even some politics sprinkled in from time to time. Chaplain Tim is a graduate of Liberty University, and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.A U.S. Coast Guard veteran, Chaplain Tim has over 30 years of service in law enforcement, corrections, emergency communications, and police chaplaincy. He has over 25 years in church ministry as a pastor and Bible teacher.
Episodes
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When Dementia Changes a Loved One: Christian Hope, Dignity, and Connection
Does visiting still matter when someone you love no longer recognizes you? In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, I share a visit with a 100-year-old woman living with advanced dementia—and the lesson God taught me when conversation wasn’t possible. I had been looking for a response, but...
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Sharing Your Faith Without Pressure: Trust, Patience, and Conversations About Jesus
Do you have someone in your life who doesn’t want to talk about Christianity? How can you share your faith while keeping the door open for an honest conversation? In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, I share an experience from my work as a hospice chaplain. A devoted husband who initially...
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What to Say to Someone Who Is Grieving: Comfort, Faith, and Listening
When someone you care about loses a loved one, you want to offer comfort. But what should you say—and why might the same words comfort one person and hurt another? In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, I draw on my experiences with personal loss, pastoral training, and hospice chaplaincy to...
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Does Your Past Have to Define Your Future?
Have you made mistakes that still affect your life today? Do you struggle with regret, poor decisions, a troubled past, or the feeling that you'll never be able to change? Does your past have to define your future? In this episode of The Chaplain's Chair, Christian chaplain Tim Lajoie explores…
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What If God Doesn't Give You What You Prayed For?
Have you ever prayed for something desperately important, only to feel that God wasn't answering? Maybe you've prayed for healing, a struggling marriage, a loved one, or a situation that seems impossible to change. What happens to your faith when God doesn't give you what you prayed for? In this...
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Can You Forgive Someone Who Isn't Sorry?
What do you do when someone hurts you but refuses to apologize? Can you forgive someone who isn't sorry—and does forgiveness mean you have to trust them again? In this episode of The Chaplain's Chair, Chaplain Tim Lajoie explores what the Bible teaches about forgiveness, repentance…
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Can God Forgive Me?
Have I gone too far for God to forgive me? Many people carry a quiet fear that something in their past has permanently separated them from God. Maybe they’ve avoided prayer, stayed away from church, or convinced themselves that forgiveness is available for other people—but not for them. In this...
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I'm Good with the Lord
What does it really mean to say, “I’m good with the Lord”? As a Christian chaplain, I’ve heard those words from people facing serious illness, grief, uncertainty, and the end of life. In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, we explore Christian faith, salvation, assurance, grace, and what it…
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You Don’t Always Know What God Is Doing
Why doesn’t God always show us what He is doing? There are seasons when prayers seem unanswered, circumstances make little sense, and we can’t see where God is leading. In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, we explore Christian faith, trusting God in difficult times, unanswered prayer, and…
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Why Am I Always Waiting for Something to Go Wrong? | Worry, Fear, and Trusting God
Do you ever find yourself worrying about something bad happening even when everything is fine? A late-night phone call, a message from your boss, an unanswered text, or an upcoming doctor’s appointment can send your mind racing toward the worst possible outcome. In this episode of The Chaplain’s...
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When Did My Life Become Just Getting Through the Day? | Finding Purpose in the Routine
Does life ever feel like nothing more than work, responsibilities, bills, sleep, and doing it all over again tomorrow? Nothing may be terribly wrong, yet somewhere along the way life can become a routine we simply get through instead of something we intentionally live. In this episode of The...
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I Screwed Up. Now What? | Dealing With Guilt, Regret, and the Past
How do you live with guilt and regret after you’ve done something you can’t undo? Some mistakes can be corrected. Others leave consequences that an apology, sobriety, changed behavior, or even genuine repentance cannot erase. In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, Tim Lajoie talks about guilt,...
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The Hell of Addiction, Part 3 — Leave the Porch Light On
How do you help someone with drug addiction or alcoholism without enabling them? What should families do when a loved one keeps relapsing, refuses addiction treatment, or returns to opioids, fentanyl, alcohol, or other drugs after getting sober? In the final episode of The Hell of Addiction,...
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The Hell of Addiction, Part 2 — The Spiritual Battle
Why can someone know that drugs or alcohol are destroying their life—and still feel pulled back toward them? In Part 2 of The Hell of Addiction, Chaplain Tim examines the spiritual battle of addiction alongside its physical, psychological, and behavioral realities. Addiction treatment…
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The Hell of Addiction, Part 1 — Everybody Has a Story
Addiction destroys lives—but no human being should be reduced to the word “addict.” In Part 1 of The Hell of Addiction, Chaplain Tim draws on nearly thirty years around criminal justice, corrections, ministry, and chaplaincy to examine the human reality of drug addiction, alcoholism, opioid...
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I Just Want This to Be Over
Have you ever caught yourself wishing that someone you love would finally die—and then felt terrible for even thinking it? When someone you love has been suffering for weeks, months, or even years, exhaustion can take you places you never expected to go. You love them. You don’t want to lose…
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Jesus Sees You
Have you ever wondered whether God really sees what you’re going through? Your grief. Your questions. Your anger. Your past. The things you’ve told other people and the things you haven’t told anyone. In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair, Tim Lajoie looks at several encounters from the Gospels...
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Will Someone Just Help Me!?
Beginning with a powerful scene from The Madisons, Chaplain Tim considers what happens after someone has talked, cried, answered questions, and tried to make sense of what they are experiencing. Sometimes people need to be heard. Sometimes they are asking whether we have anything to offer them.…
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Hospice Helps People Live
Hospice is associated with dying, but much of hospice care is about helping people live the time they still have. In this episode, I talk about seeing the person beyond the diagnosis, listening to the stories that make up a life, and making room for conversations about family, regret, faith,...
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Is It Okay to Be Angry at God?
Is it okay to be angry at God when you're grieving, suffering, or living with unanswered prayer? In this episode, I talk about anger at God, grief after loss, disappointment, fear, faith, and what the Bible shows us about bringing difficult questions to God rather than hiding them from Him.
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The Caregiver Nobody Asks About
Caregivers can become almost invisible while everyone focuses on the person who is sick. In this episode, I talk about the exhaustion, frustration, guilt, and complicated emotions that can come with caring for someone you love—and why sometimes the caregiver needs someone to ask, “How are you...
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You Came All This Way Just to See Me?
After her husband died unexpectedly, a hospice patient asked Tim Lajoie a question that stayed with him: “You came all this way just to see me?” In this true encounter, Tim reflects on the loss of a spouse, the complicated emotions that accompany grief, and the Christian hope that allows people…
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They All Have a Story
What does it mean to respect someone who has committed a serious crime? Drawing from his years working inside correctional institutions, Tim Lajoie reflects on accountability, remorse, repentance, and the possibility of redemption. Correctional ministry does not require minimizing what someone…
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I Wouldn’t Promise Her.
A hospice patient once asked Tim Lajoie a simple but deeply personal question: “Will you be there when I die?” He wanted to say yes, but he wouldn't make a promise he couldn't guarantee. In this true patient encounter, Tim reflects on honesty, trust, uncertainty, Christian hope, and why good...
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What I Bring Into the Room
What does good chaplaincy look like? In this episode, Tim Lajoie shares his personal approach to spiritual care—one built on relationship, honest conversation, careful listening, authenticity, humor, and respect. He discusses what it means to enter another person's space, why listening doesn't...
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Why I Wrote The Chaplain's Chair
Why did Tim Lajoie write The Chaplain’s Chair? In this episode, he reflects on what hospice patients taught him about the limits of therapeutic models, his own experiences when loved ones were dying, and why people facing life’s hardest moments often need honest conversation more than carefully...
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The Chaplain's Chair is Back-- And I Wrote a Book!
The Chaplain’s Chair is back. In this return episode, Tim Lajoie reintroduces the podcast and shares what listeners can expect from the show going forward—conversations about faith, life, grief, hope, forgiveness, leadership, chaplaincy, and the questions that matter. Then Tim introduces his...
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Welcome to 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...
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Can I Know God? What is God Like: Part II
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...
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Can I Know God: What is God Like?
We have seen the all too common and well-worn out image of God being this cosmic grandfather—this gentle old man—in His glowing white beard and glowing white robe, sitting on some glorious marble throne in some far-off heavenly abode. And that may make good Hollywood or imagination, that may make...
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He is NOT here! The Empty Tomb
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…
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The Passion of Jesus Christ
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...
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Can I Know God? More Basic Truths
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 God?" This is…
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The Hell of Addiction and What We Can Do About It
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…
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Can I Know God? Basic Truths
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 they say this. Why do I say “out of their minds?” Because they have to get outside the realm of rational thinking to get there. They don’t know enough to conclusively…
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Can I Know God? Special Revelation
“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.
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Can I Know God? General Revelation
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...
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Welcome to The Chaplain’s Chair
Take a seat in the “chaplain’s chair” and let’s have a conversation you can relate to.
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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...
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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…
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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…
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"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...
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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...
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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…
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Practical Christianity: Serving God Out of Gratitude
What does it mean to “live as a Christian?” We hear that question asked all the time. And we hear various answers, too. Many of them erroneous. I read recently on a meme something to the effect of “I don’t reject Jesus’ teachings, I just can’t accept the behavior of those who profess to be living...
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The Chaplain's Chair Trailer
Welcome to The Chaplain’s Chair, a thought-provoking podcast about religion, faith, family, and yes, even some politics sprinkled in from time-to-time. Chaplain care is soul care. And caring for your soul starts with telling you the truth. We live in a world of swirling ideas and conflicting...
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America's Last, Best Hope: A Message for Independence Day
Our liberty comes from God. The prophet Isaiah said “Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.” If we are losing our liberty, it’s fair to ask if our nation has rejected the “Spirit of the Lord.” In this Independence Day, don’t ask for a King, don’t ask for a government, ask for the…
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"The Chaplain's Chair" is a thought-provoking podcast on religion, faith, family and, yes, even some politics sprinkled in from time to time. Chaplain Tim is a graduate of Liberty University, and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.A U.S. Coast Guard veteran, Chaplain Tim has over 30 years of service in law enforcement, corrections, emergency communications, and police chaplaincy. He has over 25 years in church ministry as a pastor and Bible teacher.
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