New Podcast Posted: Developing a Biblical Vision for Every Stage of Growth
Every pastor is constantly trying to anticipate How do I lead our church to the next level of ministry? In this month’s Spiritual Leadership Podcast, we cover a variety of topics that need to be addressed for each stage of numeric church growth: The spirit of the...
Stewarding Time with Wisdom
Do you ever feel that you have more responsibilities than time in which to perform them? Actually, I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t feel that way! Thankfully, God has given us a resource to help us make decisions concerning our time. It’s called wisdom! This is why...New Podcast Posted: How to Stay the Course in Troubled Water
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. But too many sailors want to quit when the sea becomes choppy! Those in ministry regularly experience heaving seas. From personal trials, to ministry needs, to the hostility of our secular culture, ministry has a host of...
Pure Religion—What It Is
If pompous discord sowing is not pure religion (as we saw in our last post), what is the true “old time religion” supposed to look like? Our natural tendency is to create our own definitions of purity—building longer and more impressive lists of rules every year. But...
Pure Religion—What It Is Not
I preached last Sunday night on “Give Me that Old Time Religion.” But my text wasn’t from Jeremiah 6 about the old paths. In fact, the message itself wasn’t about the “old time religion” in the sense of preserving a culture from earlier days of fundamentalism. From a...
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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.
If God could use the Corinthian Church, He can use you!
"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work" (2 Corinthians 9:8).
(Full message: https://www.lancasterbaptist.org/sermons/pastor-paul-chappell-he-is-able)