Posts by Kevin Schaal

What we often presume. Our imagination about the world prior to the Great Flood is likely highly inaccurate. We typically think of a planet sparsely populated with limited technological advancements and primitive living conditions. We might speculate that it was more advanced than we typically consider, but nothing like our modern age. Looking at the…

Let me introduce you to Jay Jay and Alex. God began to change their lives on Easter Sunday of 2024 when they attended church at the invitation of Alex’s parents. Last Sunday, Jay Jay was baptized, and Alex rejoined our church.  That day was the culmination of a year-long journey in their lives, and years…

It is possible.  In fact, you likely have been a mouthpiece for Satan at one point or another in your Christian life. From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be…

This message is scrawled on a prayer request card, sitting in front of me on my desk.  Tears come to my eyes as I read it.  I just ask the Lord help me thru this mental storm I’m going thru myself and give me, my mom, my grandma, and my siblings the strength to go…

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.…