Posts by Kevin Schaal
The Plot to Queer Evangelical Churches | Megan Basham | First Things
For the next hour and a half, he listened as Stanley went on to contend that modern pastors must make allowances for gay and lesbian couples to be married in their churches because “that’s as close as they can get to a New Testament framework of marriage.” Visconti remembered Stanley likening same-sex attraction to a…
Read MoreThe Doctrine of Ecclesiastical Separation is Being Lost—We Cannot Let It Happen
Last night, I sat with some GenZ college students and talked about the history of fundamentalism. We talked for two and a half hours. I tried to answer every question and be as candid as possible about the strengths and weaknesses of biblical Baptist fundamentalism over the past 100 years. The conversation is typical of…
Read More“A Few Inches from Civil War”
“A Few Inches from Civil War” is how one commentator described the attempt on Donald Trump’s life on Saturday. I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’ Isaiah 45:7 I am sure many of you have gone through the “what if” scenario in your mind. But…
Read MoreThe Abortion Issue and the Christian
Note: Since I wrote this article on Tuesday, word came out about a change in the Republican platform statement on abortion. This article was not written with that development in mind. The event that prompted this article was the submission of signatures for a vote on an Arizona amendment to the state constitution on abortion.…
Read MoreThe 12 countries with the worst religious freedom conditions
he US State Department released its annual report on the status of international religious freedom in late June, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying the report “advances our vision for a future where everyone is able to choose and practice their beliefs, including the right not to believe or ascribe to a faith.” Source:…
Read MoreWhy is Proverbs So Negative About Women?
Not long ago I preached on the four lists in Proverbs 30:8-32. Tucked among those lists is Proverbs 30:20 which says, This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wickedness.” So, a fairly new believer asked me a simple question afterward. “Why is the Bible…
Read MoreWhy Did the Purity Movement Die?
In the 1990s and into the early 2000’s the purity movement was all the rage among evangelicals. It was all about saving yourself for marriage. It spawned an industry—with rings, and other items being sold. Hundreds of books were written about it. If you have not noticed, that movement is dead. Josh Harris and others…
Read MoreA False Balance and Election Integrity: A Christian Perspective
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. (Proverbs 11:1) With all the “big” sin issues in play in our culture and around the world, does cheating the scales rate that high on the scale of divine importance? According to Proverbs 11:1, it does. 3000 years have…
Read MoreJudgment Month is Upon Us—Again
In an article dated May 31, published by Realclearreligion.com, Robb Brunansky said this about Christians and the dreaded month of June that comes every year. As Christians, we might easily look at June as a month where the darkness has overtaken the light, where godless people brazenly mock God by taking His rainbow and using…
Read MoreJewish fear of antisemitism in the United States is justified – opinion – The Jerusalem Post
Much of the Jewish community in the United States lives in a state of fear. That fear is real. That fear is debilitating. The fear began before October 7; however, ever since October 7, it has grown, morphed, and taken on new and heightened proportions.The fear is multi-level. It is both a collective fear and…
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