5 Ways to Prepare for an Unusual and Christ-Exalting Easter
Easter 2020 is not the Resurrection Sunday we were expecting. Nor is it the one we were planning for a month ago. But it is the Easter in front of us this Sunday, and we trust that God is not limited by the social distancing restrictions imposed by COVID-19. Although...
Trust God and Seize the Moment
If you’re like me, your schedule for this week looks nothing like what you envisioned it would four weeks ago. Not only is my daily or weekly schedule scrambled, but my calendar is upended due to COVID-19. Some of the changes have been hard. I miss seeing my...
How to Reach Forth While Waiting
It’s hard to believe how much has changed in the three months since we entered 2020 and our church began the theme “Reaching Forth.” The theme phrase comes from Philippians 3:13, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting...
17 Efficiency Management Principles: Spiritual Leadership Podcast Bonus Episode
Very few things challenge your efficiency and process like a nation-wide crisis. In this bonus episode of Spiritual Leadership Podcast, I discuss seventeen efficiency management principles that I have been reflecting on and asking the Lord to help me to use. I hope...
Back to the Basics: Five Things You Must Do Today
In the past two weeks, as COVID-19 has worked its way across our nation, it has turned our lives upside down. No one has remained untouched by the effects of this situation. From job losses to quarantines to social distancing, no one’s life is the same as it was two...
Leading through a Crisis: Spiritual Leadership Podcast
Our world is gripped today in health concerns related to Covid-19. Yet, God has called us, as spiritual leaders, to lead through these moments of crisis. How should pastors, in particular, lead through these moments? In this episode of the Spiritual Leadership...
How to Be the Church When We Can’t Meet at Church
For many Christians in America, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was something happening “over there” just a few weeks ago. And now this weekend, many of us are holding services online because we can’t physically assemble as normal, due to social distancing. Truthfully,...
Seven Suggestions for Every Christian during the Coronavirus
These next few weeks are going to hold changes for all of us as our communities work through the challenges posed by COVID-19. In the midst of these uncharted times, we who know Christ, can still proactively practice faith. And even when our world is turned upside...
Updates for Sunday Services at Lancaster Baptist
Dear Lancaster Baptist Family, God has been so good to us, and I am thankful that He is always in control! I also believe that prayer truly makes a difference in needy times like these. In light of the Coronavirus/COVID-19, I wanted to give a few updates regarding our...
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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.
