Study in the Chapel

Chapel Ministries

We take a fresh approach to Scripture by going in-depth to unlock what God has been trying to tell us since, literally, time began. We examine what we’ve been told the Bible says and we put it to the test. We look at the original languages. We investigate the cultural background. We strip away what religion tells us we must believe and then we present an honest, thought-out, unfiltered view of Truth. All we’re doing is clearing away the centuries of ulterior motives that have accumulated on the “old” Truths. We’re not crackpots. We’re not speculators. We do our research. We consult the almost 2,000 years of scholarship that is available and, most of all, we rely on the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth to reveal the details of the One who sent that Spirit to us. Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior and you really need to get to know Him. Allow us to help.

  1. 5h ago

    Bible Study Genesis Part 72-What About the Unclean Birds

    Two by two is only part of the story. When we slow down in Genesis 7, we find God giving Noah a surprisingly detailed instruction: some animals enter the Ark in pairs, while others come by sevens. That single detail opens up a much bigger conversation about Biblical authority, how to read the Flood narrative with care, and why we refuse claims of “the Holy Spirit told me” that drift outside Scripture. We walk through clean and unclean animals as a major Bible theme that appears long before the Law of Moses. Genesis doesn’t pause to define the categories, which strongly suggests Noah already understands God’s standard. From there, we connect the idea of “clean” to sacrifice, not just food, and explain why additional clean animals make sense if Noah is expected to offer burnt offerings after the flood. We also touch on Leviticus dietary laws as the later place where identifying characteristics are spelled out, while the deeper “why” largely comes down to God’s right to define holiness. Then we tackle the questions people actually ask: Are these boundaries about health, about being set apart, or both? Why preserve “unclean” species at all? We explore the interdependence of creation, the balance of life, and why removing species is not as simple as it sounds. We also discuss why seven may be God’s provision for both repopulation and worship, and we address the curiosity around clean and unclean birds, including why Scripture doesn’t always give every detail we might want. If you care about Genesis 7, Noah’s ark, and a grounded approach to Bible study, listen through and weigh the text with us. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find these studies.

  2. 5h ago

    Bible Study Romans Part 72-The Perfect Plan

    God could have wiped the slate clean. Instead, He chose Redemption and Romans 3 explains why that matters for your life right now. We walk slowly through Paul’s logic: the Law can name our sin but it can’t cure it, and no amount of rule-keeping can justify a person before a Holy God. That leaves every one of us in the same place, short of God’s Glory, unable to climb our way back. Then the Gospel hits with full weight: God justifies sinners freely by His Grace through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus. We talk about what it means that Jesus is our Propitiation, the Mercy Seat, and why forgiveness is not God pretending sin didn’t happen. God stays just, stays true to His own standards, and still becomes the Justifier of the one who believes. That’s not soft justice. It’s justice satisfied and mercy released, all centered on Christ. We also ask the question that nags at honest people: why would God go to so much trouble for rebels? Paul’s answer is breathtaking. Salvation “declares” God’s Righteousness to the whole universe, and it restores our created purpose to reflect His Glory in the way we live. Finally, we close where Paul closes: boasting is excluded. Not our works, not our discipline, not even our faith gets to take credit. If you want a clear Bible study on Grace alone, justification by faith, and the Righteousness of God in Romans 3, this is for you. Subscribe for more teaching, share this with a friend who wrestles with Grace, and leave a review telling us what line from Romans 3 you can’t stop thinking about.

  3. 1d ago

    Bible Study Genesis Part 71-Boat Building Faith

    God makes Noah wait, work, and endure for a long time before the Flood ever comes and that’s where the real challenge lands for us. We pick up in Genesis 7 and slow down on one loaded line: God tells Noah to enter the Ark “for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.” That raises an uncomfortable question for modern Christians: what made Noah “righteous” and what does God actually look for in His people? We connect Genesis to Hebrews 11:7 and argue that Noah’s defining mark is faith in “things not seen as yet.” Faith comes first, then actions follow. Along the way, we talk about why serious Bible study takes real effort, why even respected commentaries can drift into tradition, and why we keep asking a simple question when we read: why does the Bible say that? Then we tackle a common evangelical blind spot. A lot of preaching is laser-focused on getting people saved, but thin on teaching them how to live afterward. We push back on treating the Flood as a tidy Salvation metaphor and instead face the harder theme Genesis is pressing: sin provokes God’s wrath, and God will not tolerate evil forever. Noah’s story becomes less about a sentimental children’s tale and more about faithful obedience in a hostile world, where God looks for people He can count on to do His work. If you want a Genesis Bible study that’s honest, text-driven, and practical for Christian living, listen now, share it with a friend, and then subscribe, rate, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What part of Noah’s faith feels hardest to live out today?

  4. 1d ago

    Bible Study Romans Part 71-Propitiation

    “Justified freely.” Those two words from Romans 3 land like a thunderclap if you’ve spent your life treating God like a scoreboard. We slow down and read Romans 3:24-26 carefully, because the stakes are eternal and the claim is clear: the justification we need is given by Grace, not earned by effort, improvement, or religious performance. We talk through why works-based salvation produces a lifetime of anxiety and uncertainty, and why Paul insists the Law cannot justify anyone. The Law exposes sin, but it cannot pay sin’s cost. That leads to the episode’s central picture: sin as a real debt, and redemption as a real ransom price. Jesus Christ pays what we cannot pay, then gives the purchased gift to us freely, received through faith in his blood. Then we tackle one of the Bible’s richest words: propitiation. We connect the Greek hilasterion to the Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant and show why Paul chooses that image on purpose. A covering stands between God’s unyielding Law and guilty people, and Christ becomes that Covering, the Offering that appeases wrath without compromising God’s Righteousness. We close with the beauty of God’s forbearance and what “remission” of sins past says about God’s patience as he waits for a decision of faith. Subscribe for more verse-by-verse Bible teaching, share this with a friend who feels stuck trying to earn salvation, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway or question.

  5. 6d ago

    Bible Study Genesis Part 70-All Means All

    Genesis 7 doesn’t read like a campfire legend, and we refuse to treat it like one. We take our time with the Flood narrative and keep circling back to the same stubborn words in the text: “all” and “every.” If God says the judgment is total, what do we do with the popular claim that it was only local? We read through the chapter, track the timeline, and explain why the details about animals, duration, and coverage are there in the first place. Then we go straight at the uncomfortable implication: if Scripture presents a worldwide flood as fact and that fact is dismissed, what happens to God’s trustworthiness? We also connect that question to Jesus, because Christ references Noah in a way that sounds like He believes the account is real history, not religious poetry. From there, we widen the lens to the modern pressure believers feel from scientific and cultural voices that want the Bible labeled as myth. We talk about why Christians often feel unprepared to respond, and why treating Bible study as mere academics hollow outs faith. We end with a hard reset on the “floating zoo” Sunday school version of Noah and a personal challenge to read Scripture as God’s Word to you, not as a story you can shrug off. Subscribe for the next study, share this with someone who wrestles with Genesis, and leave a review.

  6. 6d ago

    Bible Study Romans Part 70-All

    Romans 3 does not leave much room for spiritual spin. We open the Bible and follow Paul’s words all the way down to their sharp edge: “the Righteousness of God without the Law” is real, it is revealed, and we cannot earn it. The question is not whether we can become impressive enough for God. The question is whether we will believe what God says about how Salvation actually works. We talk through why works-based salvation collapses under the weight of Romans 3:21-22, and why the promise is both wide and specific: God’s righteousness comes “unto all and upon all them that believe.” That single line challenges legalism and also rejects the idea that everyone is saved automatically. We also slow down on Romans 3:23, “for all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God,” because it may be the most argued-with sentence in everyday church life. If we will not accept the “all,” we will never understand why we need Grace. Then we dig into the meaning of sin through the Greek word hamartano, “to miss the mark,” and connect the Gospel storyline to Adam and Romans 5, where sin and death enter through one man and Grace and Righteousness come through one Man, Jesus Christ. If you want clear Bible teaching on justification by faith, the Righteousness of God, sin, Grace, and why Jesus came, this study aims straight at the center. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review.

  7. Oct 27

    Bible Study Genesis Part 69-The Right Guy

    A boat the size of a floating warehouse, a judgment that wipes out a violent world, and one man who obeys with almost no answers. Genesis 6 is not written like a fable, and we take it seriously enough to ask the hard questions: why does God give precise Ark dimensions, what do those details say about the flood’s historicity, and what happens when God tells you what to do without inviting a debate? We walk through the text line by line, including the common question about Biblical numbers and symbolism, and why discernment matters when reading Scripture. Then we slow down at one of the most important words in the Bible: covenant. God’s covenants are not like human contracts where everyone negotiates terms. God initiates, God defines the obligations, and the benefit lands on us as pure grace within His Plan of Redemption. Noah’s response is the model we cannot ignore: “Thus did Noah… so did he.” From there, we explore preservation and provision: male and female to keep life going, the promise that the animals will come to Noah, and what that teaches about God supplying what He commands. We also tackle the practical Ark problem of food and the claim that meat-eating is not described before the flood, pushing us back to the first chapters of Genesis for careful, honest reading. If you struggle with the word "obedience", this study is for you, because Scripture does not treat obedience as oppression but as a clear response to a trustworthy God. Subscribe for more Bible teaching, share this with a friend who thinks the flood story is a fairy tale, and leave a review.

  8. Oct 27

    Bible Study Romans Part 69-Without the Law

    “What is the Gospel?” sounds like an easy question until someone asks you to define it without church shorthand. We pick up in Romans 3 right where Paul finishes his relentless case that both Jews and Gentiles stand guilty under sin, and then we slow down at the hinge of the whole letter: “But now the righteousness of God without the Law is manifested.” We talk plainly about why “good news” has a cost, why forgiveness matters, and why forgiveness is only the beginning. Paul isn’t offering a motivational upgrade for decent people; he’s announcing justification for the hopeless, where God gives the Righteousness we cannot earn. That means the core of Christian Salvation is not rule-keeping, social approval, or being “mostly compliant.” It is Grace, received by faith in Jesus Christ, because “by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified.” We also connect the dots between the Old Testament and the New Testament, because Paul does: the Law and the prophets witness to this Righteousness through offerings, feast days, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and even the suffering language of Psalm 22. Along the way, we challenge modern habits that treat the Old Testament as optional and show why the Law is the backdrop that makes the Gospel shine. Listen through the end for the law-compliance analogy that makes judgment feel uncomfortably concrete, plus a teaser for where we go next in Romans. If this helped you put real words to the Gospel, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review.

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We take a fresh approach to Scripture by going in-depth to unlock what God has been trying to tell us since, literally, time began. We examine what we’ve been told the Bible says and we put it to the test. We look at the original languages. We investigate the cultural background. We strip away what religion tells us we must believe and then we present an honest, thought-out, unfiltered view of Truth. All we’re doing is clearing away the centuries of ulterior motives that have accumulated on the “old” Truths. We’re not crackpots. We’re not speculators. We do our research. We consult the almost 2,000 years of scholarship that is available and, most of all, we rely on the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth to reveal the details of the One who sent that Spirit to us. Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior and you really need to get to know Him. Allow us to help.

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    Chapel Ministries
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    144
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