Posts by Kristopher Schaal
Growing Fathers (FrontLine July/August 2025)
FRONTLINE Volume 35 • Number 4 It has often been noted that God is working in the world primarily through three institutions—the family, the church, and the government. These institutions are like concentric circles working outward from most personal to least personal. Any pastor knows that strong congregations are made up of healthy families, and…
Read MoreBook Review: What’s Best Next
This post originally appeared on GrowingFathers.com and is republished here by permission On this blog [Growing Fathers], we talk often about how God has called Christian men to be leaders, especially in their own homes (Eph 5:22–24; 6:4). However, you will never learn to lead others until you first lead yourself, and What’s Best Next…
Read MoreResource Recommendation: Patch the Pirate
If you take a ride in the Schaal minivan, you will most likely hear it. It’s like our soundtrack for road trips. Our children have most of the songs memorized. My wife and I even joke that we have gone several minutes on a date night before remembering to turn it off because it’s so…
Read MoreSteps of Assurance Counseling
My last post discussed how to talk to your children about salvation. I mentioned that I spent some time at a Christian camp in southern California working with children. During my time there, I developed a worksheet that we gave to the junior camp counselors each year. This worksheet dealt with counseling campers who were…
Read MoreCounseling Your Children about Salvation
I pray for my children’s salvation every day. If you are reading this post, then probably you do too — and you should! There is nothing that a Christian dad desires more than the salvation of his children. I believe that ultimately, God is sovereign in salvation (John 6:65; Acts 13:48). It is a gift…
Read MoreOur Righteous Savior
I think we often take the fact of Christ’s sinlessness for granted. We often emphasize the impeccability of Christ, which means that He could not have sinned. The Bible is clear that Jesus is God. God is perfectly holy, and “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” God cannot sin; therefore, Jesus could…
Read MoreJustice vs. Authority?
One of the most frustrating aspects of the current political moment is its efforts to push us into false dichotomies. Either you support people of color, or you support law enforcement. Either you defend the President no matter what he says or does, or you like the destruction of private property and attacks on religious…
Read MoreThe Problem of Psalm 91, Part 2
In part 1 of this post, we introduced the interpretive problem of Psalm 91 and examined some less than satisfactory answers to that riddle. In part 2, we will discuss how Jesus’ own life, death, and resurrection helps us to interpret Psalm 91. However, before we get there, we must build some more framework. We…
Read MoreThe Problem of Psalm 91, Part 1
Psalm 91 is arguably one of the most beautiful chapters in all of the Bible. I remember being drawn to it as a kid when I heard it read publicly at our church. More recently, I was drawn to Psalm 91 after the Coronavirus outbreak. I even preached a sermon on it a couple of…
Read MoreSteward Your Stimulus Check Wisely.
Many Americans received their stimulus checks last week.1 If you haven’t received yours yet, it will be arriving soon. What will you do with this money? Invest in the stock market? Finish that home remodel project? Buy a nicer TV? As Christians, we understand that everything we have belongs to God, including our money (1…
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