by Paul Chappell | Mar 30, 2018 | Christian Life
If there is anyone in the world who has reason to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is a born again Christian. Although we actually commemorate the Resurrection as we worship as a local church body every Sunday, I appreciate a day—and a week...
by Paul Chappell | Feb 9, 2018 | Ministry Leadership, Ministry News
When you consider the needs of the 10/40 window—a region spanning from ten to forty degrees north of the equator on the Eastern Hemisphere—it’s overwhelming. The 10/40 window contains: Almost 5 billion people—over 95 percent of which are unreached with the...
by Paul Chappell | Dec 14, 2017 | Ministry Leadership, Spiritual Leadership Podcast
As we’re just weeks away now from the start of a new year, most of us are thinking toward what changes we’d like to make or goals we’d like to pursue in the coming twelve months. As a pastor, I’m already weeks into preparing ministry goals for our church, and I’m...
by Paul Chappell | Sep 22, 2017 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
This week at Lancaster Baptist Church, we launched our fall soulwinning season for the thirty-second consecutive year. Of all the different types of outreach we do as a church, nothing beats consistently sharing the gospel one person at a time. And biblically, this is...
by Paul Chappell | Aug 18, 2017 | Christian Life, Family
If you could only remember about six to ten Bible verses, what would you want them to be? What if you could only remember about ten minutes worth of material, what would you want that to be? My mom, who is battling Alzheimer’s, is in this position. When I had the...