Posts by Kevin Schaal
An Addict in the Family – Just Between Us
I work as a volunteer in drug abuse awareness, using shock and awe statistics to wake people up to the fact that we have a drug crisis in our American suburbs. The headline happened to us: “Christian family tries to do all the right things and son descends into drug use.” I still cry when…
Read MoreAmerica Must Lead the Way on Religious Freedom | RCR
Leonard Leo, a former USCIRF commissioner who was at the summit, identified places in the world where state actors continue to persecute their people with impunity. Such recent instances of religious violence are “shocking in their severity and breadth.” Leo also noted that less visible, creeping violations are happening in our own backyard. He warned: “How…
Read MoreTwo Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization – Bloomberg
Christians ought to be praying that this amazing turn of events will open the door for gospel ministry in North Korea. I know of people right now who are ready to go as soon as the opportunity allows. (KSchaal) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed Friday to…
Read MoreClosing the Generation Gap
FrontLine March/April 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 2 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. Ecclesiastes 2:21 Is this verse just…
Read MoreWhy I Don’t Sit With My Husband at Church | CT
“Are you and Bryan okay?” asked a friend. “Yes, why?”“I noticed you weren’t sitting together in church.” I often hear this question. The answer hinges on the rising need for hospitality in church.Gospel invitation has always been the call of Christ, but it’s all the more urgent as 21st-century American Christianity suffers from thin…
Read MoreResponding to Controversy: Stay and Fight or Separate
On March 12, 2018, Al Mohler posted a blog article on the Ligonier site that any fundamentalist could have written. The title of the article was, “Why Controversy is Sometimes Necessary”. His point was that controversy is not always bad even when it divides believers. Biblical discernment is necessary to know when controversy…
Read MoreChick-fil-A and the Christian Infiltration-Weekly Standard
Even the headline of the short essay in the New Yorker was meant to offend, and it did: “Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City.” The piece, by Dan Piepenbring, has been read, attacked, defended, and ridiculed by far more people than ordinarily read the New Yorker. If the editors’ goal was to attract online…
Read MoreC. S. Lewis & World War I — Atheism to Christianity | NR
A hundred years ago, Lewis was an atheist in the trenches of a terrible war.In the spring of 1918, Germany and the Central Powers staged a final massive offensive that threatened to overwhelm British and French forces along the Western Front. Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe, issued the order:…
Read MoreDoes the Bible Teach Sexual Assault Victims Must Marry Their Attacker? | AIG
With the rise of the #MeToo movement along with big-name stars and politicians being called out for sexual assault and harassment, the topics of sexual assault and rape are in the public eye more than ever before. And some people, such as in the feedback above, are claiming the Bible teaches that such victims must…
Read MoreWhat Happened to Keswick? – Delnay
Years ago a few Fundamentalists had occasion to identify with the Keswick movement, also known as the “deeper life,” or “victorious life.” Others have slurred the movement in somewhat the same way that New Evangelicals have slurred the Scofield Reference Bible. The point is worth some notice.While the movement traces back to the perfectionist movements…
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