Cranston Bible Chapel
Welcome to the Cranston Bible Chapel Podcast—Bible teaching from Cranston, Rhode Island. Our desire is to feed God’s people, equip the saints, and build up the church through Christ-centered preaching and practical application. Whether you’re part of our local body or listening from afar, we pray these messages help you know the Lord more deeply and follow Him more faithfully.
Episodes
12 episodes
From Far Off To Brought Near In Christ - Ephesians 2:11-22
A wall can shape your whole life, especially when you don’t even realize it’s there. We open up Ephesians 2:11-22 and follow Paul’s blunt contrast: once far off, without Christ, without hope, and without God, then suddenly “but now” brought nea...
Blessed In Christ - Ephesians 1:1-13
You can be “blessed” in a hundred surface-level ways and still feel empty when the week gets hard. We go straight to Ephesians 1 and camp on the phrase that keeps repeating for a reason: in Christ. That’s where Christian identity gets solid, wh...
You Must Be Born Again
You can do a lot of spiritual things and still be completely wrong about what saves you. That’s the tension at the heart of John 3, where Jesus looks past Nicodemus’ credentials, reputation, and religious effort and tells him something shocking...
The Church is God's Plan A
You can walk into church with a picture already formed in your head and never realize it until it disappoints you. One friend once summed up his first visit with a single phrase: “happy clappy.” It was funny, but it exposed something serious: o...
Easter Is A Reality To Answer
Easter is either a nice story we revisit once a year or the moment that rewires everything. We open Luke 24 and follow the first Easter morning, where confusion, grief, and skepticism collide with an empty tomb and a question that won’t let go:...
From Cheers to Jeers : Palm Sunday
A cheering crowd, palm branches in the air, and a humble King riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. Palm Sunday looks like a victory parade, but we can’t ignore where the road leads just days later. We walk through Matthew 21, John 12, Luke 19, an...
Who is the Son of Man?
Jesus doesn’t leave us room to “admire” Him from a safe distance. When He calls Himself the Son of Man, He’s tying His identity to Daniel’s promised Messiah and claiming authority that belongs to God alone. That raises a personal question we ca...
The Incarnation And The Promise That God Comes Near
A God who keeps his distance would be easier to explain, but he wouldn’t be the God of the Bible. We walk through the incarnation of Jesus Christ and why it’s not a seasonal detail but a foundation stone of the Christian faith: the holy Creator...
Covenant and Promise
What if the Old Testament is less a maze of rules and more a map of promises that lead straight to Jesus? We take you on a fast, vivid tour from Eden to David and show how each covenant reveals God’s heart: rescue in our failure, justice in our...
What is Sin?
A floor project gone wrong becomes the doorway into a bigger story: why life looks polished yet feels slippery underfoot. We open with a personal renovation fail and use it as a parable for skipping the foundations that keep us from sliding, th...
From Creation To Calling: Purpose In A Designed World - Pastor John
Wonder often begins with a small pause: a bright caterpillar, a quiet snowfall, a sky stitched with stars. We took that pause and followed it into a bigger story—one where design points to a Designer, and the beauty of creation becomes an open ...