Posts by Kevin Schaal

“I wasn’t raised in a _____________ (Christian, good) home and my father never talked to me. So, I don’t really know how to talk to my own kids.” It’s time for some tough talk to dads.  That is no excuse for failing your own children in your most basic responsibility as a father—to teach your…

  But know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, ]unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of…

  Are you angry, or feeling persecuted?  Did you get a raw deal?  Is it possible that you are thinking of yourself more highly than you ought to think? (Romans 12:3) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of…

The idea of separation of Church and State has been important to Baptists as long as there have been Baptists.  As a group that did not conform to the Catholic establishment or the Reformers during the Reformation, separatist groups such as the Baptists often suffered persecution at the hands of both sides.  As a result,…

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (Titus 2:4-5)  I know that this verse is obnoxious to many. They are certainly free to…

The answer to this question is a resounding “Yes!” We must be more purposeful about this than ever before.  It must be instruction that is Bible-based and does not follow the extremes or errors of popular culture. Fred McFeely Rogers might have had a pulse on the thinking and feelings of children more than any…

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, 28 saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!”But Peter and the other apostles answered…

  The question people often ask is actually how Judas died.  The Bible seems to describe it in two different ways. He hanged himself and he fell headlong and his bowels gushed out.  The answer to that one is easy.  He died in a botched attempt to hang himself. The result was what he intended, but it…