Robin Schumacher

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  Jun 20, 2022

  When bad people feel safe

  These individuals require the constant attention of our justice system and all of us must stay vigilant in keeping them fearful of committing crimes or they will quickly regroup and do more evil. As Gandalf said to Frodo in Lord of the Rings: “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”

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  Jun 13, 2022

  How to deep six the sin in your life

  Overcoming sin requires that we acknowledge our primary problem: we have misdirected loves. Therefore, Owen says, a key to beating sin is loving something good more than we love our sin.

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  Jun 6, 2022

  Getting comfortable with God’s mysteries

  Sometimes we’re given enough explicit content in God’s Word to make such determinations and get the answers we seek. But sometimes we don’t. And when that happens, we’re left in the somewhat uncomfortable position of having to live with God’s mysteries.

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  May 30, 2022

  Hiding ourselves from the truth

  Bedford says, “The cure to heresy is now as it was then: simple truth.” I agree — you can’t go wrong with that.  

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  May 23, 2022

  Do you know someone who needs to be comforted or disturbed?

  Coming alongside those who are struggling with loss, illness, and other life difficulties with one-on-one pastoral care, support groups, lay counselors, etc., is part of Scripture’s “bearing one another’s burdens” (Gal. 6:2). But what about disturbing the comfortable?

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  May 16, 2022

  An unlikely cure for the blues

  It’s been almost two years since I wrote about being diagnosed with depression back in the early 2010s and the burnout causes that led up to it. Thankfully, by following the road to recovery I described in the article, I’ve not experienced it again.

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  May 9, 2022

  Our Freud-marinated culture

  While Freud may not have done any discernible damage to the idea of God’s existence via his atheist arguments, he has managed to undercut Christian morality and wreak havoc on our civilization through his sexualized psychological teachings. Especially when it comes to kids.

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  May 2, 2022

  The delusion that doomed CNN+

  Although I don’t have the inside scoop, given my career experience, I suspect one thing: confirmation bias.

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  Apr 25, 2022

  The god that failed

  Being a decades-long classic rock listener, I’ve heard my share of Metallica music, but two songs of theirs, in particular, sent my Christian antennas up when I first heard them: Until it Sleeps and The God That Failed.

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  Apr 18, 2022

  The bigger issue behind the 'What is a woman?' question

  In the same way, I tell men who struggle with a porn addiction that porn isn’t their true problem, the what is a woman/transgender debate is just one small manifestation of a bigger thing.