Posts by Kevin Schaal
Can public school students learn the Bible? Here’s how we do it
The red bus arrives at Beechwood Elementary School in Whitehall, Ohio, throughout the day. About 15 students pile on each time, then it drives a few blocks to a church down the street. For the next 40 minutes, the students learn basic biblical teaching alongside virtues such as honesty, integrity and kindness.When the lessons are…
Read MoreAnti-Semitism is Horrible Sin
Some things have to be repeated over and over. This is one of them. Respect of persons is a sin. Racism is a sin. And for the same reasons, anti-semitism is a sin. There are basic biblical principles that apply here. Choices of blessing and cursing belong to God, not man. God’s choice to bless…
Read MoreSBC lost over 1,200 churches in 2022, data shows | Church & Ministries News
The Southern Baptist Convention, the United States’ largest Protestant denomination, lost more than 1,200 member churches in 2022, according to a recent data analysis from LifeWay Research. According to the analysis of the SBC’s 2022 Annual Church Profile published Tuesday, Lifeway found that, from 2021 to 2022, 1,253 congregations were no longer part of the…
Read MorePolitical Participation is a Biblical Stewardship
Political Participation is a Biblical Stewardship Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the…
Read MorePraise God for Ox Chips!
We grew up calling them cow chips. You know what they are. It goes in as grass, comes out as manure, and once dried becomes a “chip.” Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; but much increase comes by the strength of an ox. (Proverbs 14:4) This is one of the most important verses…
Read MoreGod’s Plan for Marriage, Family, and Life-long Care
One of the lasting vestiges of communism/socialism is the idea that the state can replace the family in the essential roles that the family has played for millennia. It was a social experiment that has proven itself a failure and yet it continues, fomented by an anti-God fervor that is sending humanity to its…
Read MoreThe Vice President of the United States Tours an Abortion Clinic
I want to make this one short and very clear. The enshrinement of abortion in state constitutions and the normalization of abortion in the United States has been going on for 50 years, but this is a first. The Vice President of the United States of America, a woman who has actively opposed ANY restrictions…
Read MoreIt’s Christian Nationalism, Stupid!
“It’s the economy, stupid!” It was a phrase coined by James Carville to focus the 1992 Clinton campaign, and everyone else, on one singular issue he thought was a campaign winner—and it worked. Politicians, especially as campaigners like to keep their message focused. This coming election is no exception. The 2020 election was a referendum…
Read MoreThe Epoch Times and Falun Gong
I wrote last week about the intrinsic tie between a Chinese religious cult called Falun Gong and the popular conservative newspaper called Epoch Times. I have been asked for a follow-up and explanation. The Association with Falun Gong One of the original clues I saw regarding the relationship between the Epoch Times and Falong Gong…
Read MoreShen Yun: The Evangelistic Effort of a Chinese Religious Cult
I fell for it. It eventually gets difficult to buy gifts for older people. After all, they have almost everything they need—in fact, usually more than they need. So, for my 86-year-old mother, we have been buying tickets to the symphony or other such concerts as Christmas and birthday presents. But even with classical forms…
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