Posts by Kevin Schaal
State Department allowing U.S. embassies to fly LGBT ‘Pride’ flags
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is allowing U.S. diplomatic posts around the world to fly the LGBT “Pride” flag on the same flagpole as the U.S. flag during “Pride season.”In a cable first reported by Foreign Policy magazine on April 22, Blinken granted U.S. diplomatic outposts “blanket written authorization … to display the Pride flag…
Read MoreI Identify as a Blood Bought Believer in Jesus Christ
We live in a culture where people like to wear tags, and especially what to “identify” according to specific groups and preferences. Some want to carry those identities with them into Christianity. A few years ago, a visitor to our morning announced to me as he greeted me, “I am a non-practicing gay person…
Read MoreIt’s Time to Preach the Law
David should have helped Goliath? Lexus has recently produced a new, scripturally ignorant commercial. Empathy means not “David versus Goliath, but David helping Goliath.” (here) This is just dumb. Goliath’s clearly stated purpose was to enslave all of Israel and feed the flesh of David to the birds. You would think that empathy has a…
Read MoreJesus Loves the Little Children
The head of a New York City private school that has been accused of indoctrinating students with progressive politics and “anti-racist” orthodoxy privately acknowledged that the school is guilty of “demonizing white people for being born,” according to audio from a conversation he had with a whistleblower teacher (here). Not just in this country but…
Read MoreFor the Church, Change Is Not Necessarily Failure
After a year of Covid-19, riots, political upheaval, and changing political landscape one thing is clear. The world as we once knew it is gone and it is not coming back. February of 2020 seems like it was a different century. Christian Colleges are facing a presidential executive order that would force them to abandon…
Read MoreJohn Piper’s son skewers evangelicals as TikTok star rises – The Christian Post
This is a sad story, and any one of us can end up with an unbelieving child. There is a minor point in this story that struck me. It might just be a misstatement but it reflects the wrongheaded theology of many. Abraham Piper did not BECOME and unbeliever at 19. Our children are not…
Read MoreSupreme Court rules against California’s limits on in-home religious gatherings | Fox News
The ruling stated that before it can limit religious gatherings, the government must prove they pose a greater danger than secular activities that remain open, such as shopping or attending movies.”Otherwise, precautions that suffice for other activities suffice for religious exercise too,” the majority opinion said, adding that California “treats some comparable secular activities more favorably…
Read MoreIs Universal Basic Income Biblical?
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses…
Read MoreFence put up around GraceLife Church west of Edmonton | CTV News
EDMONTON — A fence has been erected around an Alberta church after its congregation has met for months in violation of provincial COVID-19 orders.Chain link fencing surrounded GraceLife Church and its parking lot in Parkland County west of Edmonton Wednesday morning.Alberta Health Services said it “physically closed” the building and will be preventing access to…
Read MoreThank God for Sunday!
There is a great emphasis made on the Sabbath and Sabbath worship in scripture and there are arguments whether Sunday is the “Christian Sabbath” or not. As dispensationalists, we refrain from calling Sunday the Christian Sabbath although we readily agree that Sunday fills the “one in seven” rest principle established at creation. However, the worship…
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