Posts by Kevin Schaal

I will celebrate my 61st birthday soon. I have been a senior pastor for 37 years. That is right. I planted Northwest Valley Baptist Church when I was 24 years old. I wish I knew the things then that I know now. I would dearly love to start ministry all over again with my present…

The simpleton, the fool, and the scorner are the bad boys of Proverbs, and I mean that in no endearing sort of way. We sometimes use these words that we see in Proverbs interchangeably and understandably so.  These guys are the bad guys in the book of Proverbs.  They are the ones that mothers hope…

“Jesus ate with sinners!” The drug-addicted mother threw the statement in the face of her substance-recovering daughter as a taunt and manipulative tool.  The daughter had recently come to Christ and was seeking to find freedom from a drug-shrouded childhood.  She was raised in the drug culture by a mother who was equally given to…

  The intersectionality of religion and politics is a huge bone of contention in the present social dialogue.  People from the right and left are both attacking the idea of Christian Nationalism—in whatever way it may be defined.  However, the idea of free speech is foundational to Western culture, and it is extremely important to…

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion”…”Safe?” said Mr Beaver …”Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” ― C.S. Lewis, from The Lion, the…

The He Gets Us advertising campaign was launched in 2022 in order to “reintroduce” Jesus to the masses—especially to young people. It was focused on the sensibilities and values of western culture, and focused on things like compassion, identity, pain, and “radical forgiveness.” The founder of Hobby Lobby spent over $100 million on the campaign…

This is a loaded question and I do not believe I have the answer to it, but it is a question that many pastors are facing today in helping married couples through these horribly sinful times. Are divorce and remarriage ever permissible? This is not the question for this article. If you believe that divorce…

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  Matthew 5:28  If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and…

There is an Amazon series being aired that is an expose (with an agenda) of the Duggar family drama, and the ministry behind the Duggars—the Institute in Basic Life Principles—founded by now disgraced (as determined by the leadership of the ministry he founded) Bill Gothard. My understanding is that it falsely ties all of biblical…