by Dr. Paul Chappell | Apr 27, 2020 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
In one sense, any trial that comes into our lives is unplanned and disruptive to our expectations. But some trials last longer than others and are disruptive to everything in our lives. The COVID-19 crisis has, in many ways, been this kind of trial. Everyone in our...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Apr 20, 2020 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
Many of us live without truly enjoying spiritual, emotional, and sometimes even physical rest. Here in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, we are finding ourselves forced to take a different pace. For some, the change of pace has actually increased stress...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Apr 3, 2020 | Christian Life, Current Events
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...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Mar 31, 2020 | Christian Life
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...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Mar 23, 2020 | Christian Life, Current Events
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...