True to Real - The Chapel Message Podcast

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What happens when the truth we believe becomes real in the life we’re actually living? True to Real brings Scott Chapman and his friends together for honest conversations about faith, doubt, culture, and the complicated realities of following Jesus. Rooted in the weekend messages at The Chapel, each episode explores how what we know to be true about God can become real in our relationships, struggles, questions, and everyday choices.

  1. 4d ago

    What If Finding Yourself Starts with Letting Go?

    Who are you when you’re no longer proving yourself? Scott Chapman, Ellie Dole, and Freddy Villarreal explore the pressure to find ourselves through success, experiences, and reinvention—and Jesus’ surprising invitation to find life by losing it for His sake. From the pursuit of personal growth to the insecurity beneath our achievements, they consider what changes when we receive our identity from God. How does knowing we are loved move from something true to something real—and shape what God wants to give through us?

  2. Sep 24

    What if you got what you deserve?

    We want life to be fair—until we realize what fairness would mean for us. Scott, Ellie, Jamie, and Putty explore how the cross confronts our instinct to keep score, demand judgment, and decide who deserves grace. How can followers of Jesus pursue justice without becoming consumed by punishment or revenge? And what changes when we recognize that none of us receives what we deserve—but, through Jesus, we are offered something infinitely better?

  3. Sep 18

    What are you connected to?

    Jesus never asked us to produce life on our own. In John 15, He invites us to remain in Him—because real strength, growth, and fruit come from staying connected to the Vine.

  4. Sep 9

    Bad Decisions and Burning Snakes

    On this week’s podcast, Scott, Ellie and Jamie explore Israel’s pattern of sin, how God disciplines us and how to avoid making those same mistakes in our own lives.

  5. Sep 3

    What if I'm the problem?

    The Israelites escaped Egypt—but Egypt didn’t immediately escape them. In Exodus 15, their journey shows us that freedom involves more than leaving oppression behind; it also requires confronting what oppression has formed within us.Putty Putman joins Scott and Ellie to explore how we become what we worship—and why grief and gratitude are both essential to our own exodus. How do we honestly face what has been broken without allowing our pain to define us? And how does worship reshape us into people who trust that God, through who He is, is restoring all things?Sometimes the freedom we need most is freedom from the person we have become.

  6. Aug 28

    What Are You Looking At?

    What we see shapes how we live. When our circumstances dominate our perspective, fear can make us hesitate, strive, or shrink back. But when we learn to set our attention on the presence of God, the same circumstances can look completely different.In this episode, Scott, Jamie and Ellie explore what it means to live by faith when what’s in front of us feels bigger than what we believe God is doing. They talk about the tension between striving for the life we want and receiving the gift of life with God, why faith requires us to factor God into the reality we can see, and how His presence changes the way we understand obstacles, ambition, uncertainty, and what comes next.What if faith isn’t ignoring reality—but learning to see all of reality with a focus on the presence of God?

  7. Aug 20

    Does Grace Cancel the Consequences?

    From the blood-marked doors of Egypt to the cross of Jesus, Passover tells a story of rescue—God freeing people from a bondage they could never break on their own. But what happens when forgiveness is real and the consequences of our choices are real too? In this episode, we wrestle with the tension of being fully forgiven in Christ while still living in a world where sin can leave damage behind. Freedom is not pretending the past never happened; it is learning to take responsibility without returning to shame, to walk through consequences without living under condemnation, and to build our lives on the reality of who Jesus is. We have been set free—but will we learn to live like it?

  8. Aug 7

    Under Pressure: Becoming or Breaking?

    New studio. New season. A conversation that gets personal. Scott, Ellie, and Jamie unpack the opening weeks of More Than Free and explore a challenging truth: pressure is always forming us—for better or worse. When life turns up the heat, who are we becoming?

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What happens when the truth we believe becomes real in the life we’re actually living? True to Real brings Scott Chapman and his friends together for honest conversations about faith, doubt, culture, and the complicated realities of following Jesus. Rooted in the weekend messages at The Chapel, each episode explores how what we know to be true about God can become real in our relationships, struggles, questions, and everyday choices.

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