by Paul Chappell | Mar 1, 2024 | Christian Life, Current Events
Woke is an odd word—and not just because it is a past tense verb that is now commonly used as an adjective. It’s odd because it has vague connotations without clear definitions. This ambiguity allows those who appreciate the word’s implications to write off those who...
by Paul Chappell | Jan 9, 2024 | Christian Life
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...
by Paul Chappell | Dec 27, 2023 | Christian Life
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,...
by Paul Chappell | Nov 13, 2023 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
The name Shubal Stearns is familiar to students of Baptist history. And it is familiar to the church family at Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church, where I preached yesterday. Shubal Stearns was saved under the preaching of George Whitfield during the American Great...
by Paul Chappell | Nov 10, 2023 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
One of the highlights to me of World Impact Missions Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church is seeing missionaries who grew up at Lancaster Baptist and/or graduated from West Coast Baptist College and and are now serving the Lord on mission fields around the world....
by Paul Chappell | Oct 27, 2023 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
From the early moments of church history, we see glimpses of the kind of leaders the Lord desires to be present within His church. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this...