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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.

"Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum.

If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well:

— Steelers Chaplain Kent Chevalier – ‘False Religion’
— Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Becoming the G.O.A.T’
— Rockets Chaplain Ikki Soma – ‘What We Have in Christ’

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.

"Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum.

If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well:
— Dash chaplain Fleceia Comeaux – ‘When God calls you back’
— Steelers Chaplain Kent Chevalier – ‘Liar, Lunatic or Lord?’
— Jaguars Chaplain Maurice Williams – ‘Audience of One’

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.

"Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum.

If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well:
— FCA minister Fleceia Comeaux on seeking God first
— Houston Dash chaplain Fleceia Comeaux on God’s plan
— Houston Dash chaplain Fleceia Comeaux on contentment

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."

"Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.

If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well:
— Steelers Chaplain Kent Chevalier – ‘Liar, Lunatic or Lord?’
— Rutgers Football Chaplain Tyler Stowell – ‘Our Father In Heaven’
— Rockets chaplain Malcolm Marshall on ‘Woman at the Well’

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:


He came from Heaven (John 6:35-38).
He has the power to perform miracles (John 10:36-39).
He was sinless (John 8:45-47).
He has the authority to forgive sin (Mark 2:5-7).
He would die and come back to life (Mark 8:31).
He is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6).
He is God (John 10:30-33).

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.

"Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum.

RELATED PODCASTS:
— Rutgers Football Chaplain Tyler Stowell – ‘Our Father In Heaven’
— Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Becoming the G.O.A.T’
— Jaguars Chaplain Maurice Williams – ‘Audience of One’

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.

"Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.

RELATED PODCASTS:
— Rutgers chaplain Tyler Stowell on worth – ‘Am I Good Enough?’
— Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Becoming the G.O.A.T’
— FCA minister Fleceia Comeaux on seeking God first