If You Could Only Remember So Much…
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...
We Have to Do Something
I snapped the picture above as we were recently driving into Los Angeles. And my heart was gripped by the numbers on it. Four million people in this one city—just seventy miles from where I pastor. And the population listed on the sign is just Los Angeles proper. If...
The Missing Element in Our Witness
We could list many reasons we don’t share the gospel as we should. Fear of rejection Misplaced priorities Lack of training Lack of leadership Bloated church calendars But I believe most of the time it goes deeper than all of these. We don’t share the gospel because we...
Engaging a Corrupt Culture with the Gospel
None of us preach in a vacuum. We live “in this present world” and have been commissioned by God to declare His gospel in it. It seems to me that, when it comes to the present-day culture, there are two extremes preachers tend toward: embracing the culture to the...
The Resilient Life
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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.
