Posts by Kevin Schaal

My wife texted me this morning.  Here is how the exchange went, The question has spawned for me some meditation regarding how we function in the Christian life and common errors in our thinking about being pleasing to our God. Consider what others have said regarding the centrality of our union with Christ. Union with…

Which is Better for Evangelism, General or Specific Revelation? One picture is worth a thousand words. However, there are many things that are impossible to communicate in pictures. The beauty of the Grand Canyon can be more easily communicated in a large mural, but the value of liberty is more easily communicated in an essay…

Just before the Zelensky Oval Office fiasco last week, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted this on X. “Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine,”  It…

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.  I just preached this message on Sunday, and in studying the passage, I saw something there that I had not noticed in my 35-plus years of ministry. I have quoted…

There is a compelling exegetical case for congregational church government.  That case is so compelling that structuring a local congregation in any other way seems to be disobedient to the pattern of polity laid out in the New Testament.  While there are many other passages, these key passages indicate not only how the early church…

The Times of Israel just ran a post (which was linked at Realclearreligion.org) entitled “Dismantling USAID is a moral and strategic tragedy” claiming the effectiveness of and call for the preservation of USAID. The following is the essence of this story. Make no mistake about it: USAID was and is indispensable, no matter its faults.…

The recent government memo directing all federal agencies to stop all government grants and loans has raised many questions. The administration aimed to review everything and find government waste and fraud. Many left-wing NGOs received billions in federal aid, but among the left-wing appropriations were also billions in funding for the social efforts of more…

Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also. Hebrews 13:3  Are the prisoners that we should remember only those who are being mistreated, or should we also remember those who are believers who have legitimately broken the law, or have been caught in a legal/political…

Should Mariann Budde have the only voice? Religious leaders have been clamoring to influence the newly sworn-in President of the United States. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the National Cathedral, in a public address at Trump’s inaugural prayer service, spoke directly to him asking him to have mercy on illegal immigrants, and transgender children. Catholic Archbishop…

As I write, we are a week into the LA wildfires and the official containment level is still under 20% in most of the breakouts. The political/media class has exploded with finger-pointing and pontificating while the fires still roar. Surely, short-sighted political decisions have had disastrous consequences. LA saved $17 million in the fire budget…