Posts by Kevin Schaal

The world is in the Hands of an angry God right now. The Puritans are not that popular these days. People want very positive messages about a God that loves everyone. So, which is it? Is God the angry deity of Jonathan Edwards’ famous sermon, or the loving God of popular culture? He is certainly…

This week our family had the sweet privilege of witnessing the marriage of our youngest son to a wonderful Christian young woman. It was a joyful time for all of us. Marrying someone is taking a huge risk. Unfortunately, there are many who want all the benefits of marriage without marriage itself because they believe…

1 Timothy 5:1-16 The local church is not an interest group, it is a family—a household. Families are intergenerational. In fact, the intergenerational relationships in families are what families are all about. However, there can be conflicts between the competing interests of the generations in the local church family, so Paul gives Timothy (1 Timothy…

So, shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him (Isaiah 59:19). In the 1970s, the federal courts were the enemy of Christianity and traditional morality. Even recently, monumental…

I became a Phoenix Suns fan in the 1975-76 basketball season. That year the Suns made an unlikely trip to the finals behind the efforts of players like Paul Westphal, Gar Heard, Ricky Sober, Alvan Adams, and Dick Van Arsdale. The Suns are back in the finals now, and I am still a Suns fan,…

“God is not a Republican!” said the preacher. He was in the middle of a message in which he emphasized the greatness of God above human institutions. The statement was intended to shock his politically conservative audience. Then a voice rose up from the back of the room. “Well, he is CERTAINLY not a Democrat!”…

  The gender identity of men and women in our culture is skewed, and I am afraid Christians buy into it too often. The comic book culture has created a vision of masculinity that is physically powerful, emotionally distant, angry, and brooding. Now there are variations but that is the general idea. Our culture has…