7 Ways to Engage a Church in Regular Outreach
Special days, such as Easter Sunday, are a great time for extensive soulwinning in your community. But sharing the gospel is not just a once-or-twice-a-year responsibility for the local church. It is to be our great priority. It is the mission with which Christ left...
A Call to Action
Besides the looming presidential election, there are two key issues presently facing our country—both of which are issues in which you can make a difference. Of course, the most important actions Bible-believing Christians can take are to pray and to witness. These...
Because It Is Finished…
Can there be any more startling—or liberating—words in the entire chronicle of human history than those spoken by Christ on the cross just before He died? When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the...
My Prayer for Spiritual Leadership Conference
By now, preparations for Spiritual Leadership Conference in June are underway at a weekly—even daily—level. But even as we prepare the conference details and logistics, I’m asking the Lord to work in this conference this year in three very specific ways: Repentance...
From Idea to Reality in 6 Steps
Most of us have more ideas than time. That’s a good problem. It’s better than more time than ideas, for sure. The danger, however, is that we develop a tendency to also have more half-started projects than we have involvement. Once we’re convinced that an idea is...
Thoughts on a Miracle Night from the Heart of a Pastor
Sunday night, March 6, 2016, will go down in the history of our church as a miraculous and memorable night. For the first time in the history of our church, we had the facility to hold an all-church banquet on our property (a result of the generous giving of God’s...
3 Profound Ways Curtis Hutson Influenced Me
Without a doubt, Curtis Hutson was one of the great independent Baptist influencers of the past generation. Great in the sense of both quality and quantity. I remember as a young pastor how excited I was for him to come preach for our church that first time and how...
5 Traits of an Effective Overseer
Have you ever delegated a responsibility to someone who didn’t follow through? Or who didn’t care to do it the way you wanted it done? God has made pastors overseers of His flock. (By extension, this applies also to staff who assist the pastor.) Take heed therefore...
3 Ways We Can Pray for Closed Nations
As recently as a couple weeks ago, I stood with Dr. Daniel Kim at the DMZ by North Korea. It’s a heartbreaking feeling to stand just a few hundred yards away from people locked in a country of repression and, for Christians, a place of severe persecution—and be able...
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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.
