Posts by Kevin Schaal
Texas lawmakers want to make clear guns allowed in churches
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Some Texas legislators want to make it clearer in state law that licensed handgun holders can carry weapons in churches, synagogues and other houses of worship, nearly a year and a half after a gunman killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church during a Sunday service.The effort comes as…
Read MoreWho’s to Blame When the Shooter Is One of Our Own? | Christianity Today
Last weekend’s news of another synagogue attack was shocking but, sadly, not a shock. Mass shootings, while thankfully not routine weekly occurrences, have become a matter of “when” rather than “if” in modern America. Yet, this attack at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California stirred particular interest and questions among Christians since the suspect,…
Read MoreWhy Christian Children Don’t Belong In Public Schools–The Federalist
Let’s get right to the point: many Christians throughout history shared the idea that God is the fundamental source of all truth, whether religious, academic, or otherwise. But what are we to make of a student who has spent 15 to 20 years studying academics without ever considering God’s relationship to these fields of knowledge?…
Read MoreWhat Christians Face in a Neo-Marxist World | The American Conservative
Two weeks ago, an elderly abbot of a Russian Orthodox Monastery in the U.S. Pacific Northwest was punched in the head while pumping gas.The assailant, unknown to him, reportedly zeroed in on the cross he was wearing and then said, “How’s Trump?”“I don’t know,” replied the gentle but traditional monk, not known for being political.Then…
Read MoreProtesting Methodist LGBTQ policy, confirmation class takes a pass – Religion News Service
(RNS) — United Methodists across the U.S. have protested the global denomination’s crackdown on LGBTQ members in all kinds of ways.But now a group of teens in a confirmation class at a historic United Methodist church in the Midwest has taken the unprecedented step of refusing to join the church.Eight teenagers, aged 13 and 14,…
Read MoreMayor Pete’s Woke Intolerance | Nic Rowan | First Things
In 2015, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg voiced a moral disagreement with Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana.Just days before Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—which would allow business owners to deny services based on religious reservations—Buttigieg told local reporters it would “create problems” for his city’s LGBTQ community. “This paves the way for…
Read MoreSeven Steps to Finding God’s Will
Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on you, I wait all the day (Psalm 25:4-5). For every one of us, there will come that horrible moment when we just do not know what to do.…
Read MoreA Marriage without a Sexual Relationship is Unbiblical
We do not often address this topic openly, but Paul did. I do cover this thoroughly in premarital counseling, but there are so many more people that need to understand this biblical truth. It is absolutely essential, not only to the quality marital relationship but to New Testament sanctification. Let the husband render to his…
Read More‘I thought we got away from religious tests’: Clarence Thomas addresses Senate Democrats’ litmus tests for Catholic judicial candidates
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is unimpressed with Senate Democrats’ attempts to apply religious tests to Roman Catholic judicial nominees.That Thomas is saying anything at all on the subject is notable given his reputation for being tight-lipped.“I thought we got away from religious tests,” Thomas remarked this year during Pepperdine University School of Law’s annual…
Read MoreIsaiah on Wealth
The prosperity of American culture breeds sin. For any believer, it is hard to deny this. We first see wealth as a means to happiness through the comfort of security, or the ability to get what we want. In the end, we often sacrifice our true happiness for wealth. Isaiah saw the same problems in…
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