10 Leadership Lessons from 30 Years of Pastoring a Large Congregation
In 1986, a small congregation of twelve members voted to invite me to serve as their pastor. That summer, Terrie and I and our two young children moved from Northern California to here in northern Los Angeles County where it has since been my great privilege to serve...
Five Steps to Developing God-Honoring Goals and Habits for the New Year
I love the new year. I love the freshness and opportunity it presents for growth and goal setting. As for goals, I enter every year with a list. I know some people get discouraged by unrealized goals of past years. But I would suggest that goal setting itself isn’t...
Five Good Reasons to Sing this Christmas
Christmas is a season of song. Everywhere you go at Christmastime, there is music. Even secular songs echo the cheer of the season. And, of course, the Christian carols of Christmas are rich in celebration and worship. This makes Christmas a wonderful season to sing....
Can We Not Do More? Three Essentials for Fulfilling the Great Commission
It was 1792, and world evangelism was barely on the radar of Baptist churches in England. But it was heavy on the heart of a thirty-one-year-old bivocational pastor in Northamptonshire. His name was William Carey, and he was passionate about the Great Commission. ...
Thoughts for American Christians in This Election
Here in the United States, we are quickly approaching Election Day. Even now, over thirty states, including California where I live, have opened early voting. Religious liberty and the freedom to select our leaders is, historically speaking, an amazing, unprecedented...
What Can the Righteous Do? Stand on Truth
It was hard to say which was the most stifling—the summer Philadelphia heat or the bickering and objections each time a suggestion was raised. It was 1787, and the Constitutional Convention had been meeting for over a month but had made little to no progress on...
The Christian Leader’s Soul: Spiritual Leadership Podcast
As we serve in ministry, it’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of preaching, leading, and managing daily tasks, but what happens when our soul is depleted? What do you do when the passion that once fueled your ministry is buried under the weight of schedules,...
The Hypocrisy of “Evangelicals for Harris”
Over the past several days, in social media streams there has been promotion of a group, “Evangelicals for Harris.” The group proposes that people should vote for the Harris-Walz presidential ticket as “a Matthew 25 witness of love of neighbor.”1 I understand...
Bobby Roberson: Friends and Mentors Now in Heaven Series
As I was recently browsing old photos, I was blessed to realize that God has allowed me to know some truly great men. Over the past several weeks, I’ve been sharing some of these pictures and memories to introduce readers of this blog to some of these men. Bobby...
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Pastor Paul Chappell
Dr. Paul Chappell is the senior pastor of the Lancaster Baptist Church and president of West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California. His biblical vision has led the church to become one of the most dynamic independent Baptist churches in the nation. He has been married to his wife, Terrie, for over forty years and is the father of four married children all serving in Christian ministry.
Adoration, worship, and obedience are all found in a life being changed into His image.
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:18)
"And…