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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.
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I Screwed Up. Now What? | Dealing With Guilt, Regret, and the Past (opens the original)
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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, forgiveness, taking responsibility, making amends, and learning how to live differently after you’ve seriously screwed up. Drawing from years of encounters with people in corrections, at the end of life
The Hell of Addiction, Part 3 — Leave the Porch Light On (opens the original)
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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 , Chaplain Tim addresses the difficult realities of addiction recovery, opioid and fentanyl addiction, alcoholism, substance use disorder, relapse, enabling, family boundaries, treatment, and sobriety —and wh
The Hell of Addiction, Part 2 — The Spiritual Battle (opens the original)
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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, counseling, medication-assisted treatment, and recovery support can all play important roles—but from a Christian perspective, addiction also raises deeper questions about temptation, deception, sin, bondage, cap
The Hell of Addiction, Part 1 — Everybody Has a Story (opens the original)
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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 addiction, fentanyl, substance use disorder, overdose, relapse, and recovery . What causes someone to keep using drugs or alcohol when addiction is destroying everything they love? Why do some people relapse
I Just Want This to Be Over (opens the original)
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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 them. But you desperately want the suffering to stop. In this episode of The Chaplain’s Chair , Tim Lajoie talks about caregiver exhaustion, anticipatory grief, guilt, death, and the complicated emotions tha
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