by Paul Chappell | Feb 18, 2019 | Ministry Leadership
One of the first books I read in full-time ministry was In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters. Although it is specifically about excellence in business, I was captivated by the realization that if the secular world would care about excellence in the workplace, how...
by Paul Chappell | Feb 7, 2019 | Ministry Leadership
One of the great travesties of today’s contemporary church philosophy is a lack of spiritual conviction. Notice I did not say a lack of communicating spiritual conviction, for that’s not the greatest problem. In fact, what started as an attempt to make truth more...
by Paul Chappell | Jan 29, 2019 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership, Spiritual Leadership Podcast
Let politicians deal with political challenges—the people of the growing hispanic population in our communities need to be reached by the gospel of Jesus Christ. In our community and in hundreds of communities across America, the demographics are changing and there...
by Paul Chappell | Jan 21, 2019 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
At the beginning of the new year, you eagerly set goals to reach forward for Christ in multiple areas. Both through your goals and the early action steps you have taken, you stretched forward. But now it is three weeks into the new year. What are the underlying...
by Paul Chappell | Dec 17, 2018 | Ministry Leadership
I love the New Year for the sense of freshness and potential it brings. I write new year’s goals, and I take time to do personal inventory and planning for the year. (The Stewarding Life Planner is the resource I developed for myself and our staff along these lines....