Five Steps to Developing God-Honoring Goals and Habits for the New Year
I love the new year. I love the freshness and opportunity it presents for growth and goal setting. As for goals, I enter every year with a list. I know some people get discouraged by unrealized goals of past years. But I would suggest that goal setting itself isn’t...
Principles for Retaining a Godly Testimony in the New Year
1. Avoid an uncertian sound. Don’t engage in activities or associations that make your testimony for Christ unclear. “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” (1 Corinthians 14:8). 2. Let not your good be evil spoken of. Be...
3 Resources for Your New Year
With each new year, I find myself more earnestly desiring to live each day wholly for Christ and to fulfill His calling on my life. As I pray for our church family and friends around the globe, my prayer for each of you is that God would give you the clarity, grace,...
What to Do While You Wait
There’s something about waiting that tends to bring out our impatience. Remember what it was like waiting for Christmas as a child? It seemed like the more you focused on it, the longer it took to arrive! But there is also something about waiting that can bring out...
Focus
Learn to identify distractions, realign priorities, cultivate Christ-centered habits, and press forward with joy in Christ.
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).
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