Robin Schumacher

Robin Schumacher

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Robin Schumacher is an accomplished software executive and Christian apologist who has written many articles, authored and contributed to several Christian books, appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs, and presented at apologetic events. He holds a BS in Business, Master's in Christian apologetics and a Ph.D. in New Testament. His latest book is, A Confident Faith: Winning people to Christ with the apologetics of the Apostle Paul.

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  • Show of hands: Who wants more than 1 wife?

    Show of hands: Who wants more than 1 wife?

    Ford points to Exodus 21:10 to defend his two marriages. But that verse belongs to Israel’s civil law, and like Moses’ allowance for divorce, it was an accommodation to hardened hearts rather than God’s design “from the beginning.”

  • God must interrupt you to save you

    God must interrupt you to save you

    Most of us believe we found God by finally making the right choice. Scripture tells a different story: we were spiritually dead and unwilling until God called us to life.

  • James Talarico and the Bible’s silence on abortion, take 2

    James Talarico and the Bible’s silence on abortion, take 2

    James Talarico says Jesus never talked about abortion, and technically he’s right. But if you want to know whether the Bible affirms the sanctity of unborn life, the answer is clear.

  • Boo! Haunted houses aren’t real, but …

    Boo! Haunted houses aren’t real, but …

    Most paranormal shows are fraud, delusion or pure entertainment. But some encounters are genuine, and the real danger isn’t meeting something we can’t explain. It’s confronting something we can’t properly discern until it’s too late.

  • What we learn from the scary Jesus of Revelation

    What we learn from the scary Jesus of Revelation

    In Revelation 2 and 3, the gentle and lowly Jesus speaks to seven churches with both praise and severe warning. He knows their works, their compromises and what they can’t see about themselves. He knows ours, too.

  • A checklist for presenting your 5th gospel

    A checklist for presenting your 5th gospel

    When it comes to turn-offs to Christianity, nothing's bigger than you and me. Push past the problem of evil, and you'll almost always find that people who reject Christ don't so much reject Him as they reject us.

  • Forgetting how to blush

    Forgetting how to blush

    There was a time when being caught celebrating something wicked made people turn red with embarrassment. That shame worked as a kind of social restraint. So what happens when it disappears?

  • Never forget? I bet you will

    Never forget? I bet you will

    So much for “never forget.”

  • Living in our age of rage

    Living in our age of rage

    "People today are mad about everything." From data centers to politics, rage has become the default cultural setting — but the Bible has been dealing with angry mobs since Acts 14. Here's what it teaches us about anger that doesn't turn into sin.

  • God in the hands of angry sinners

    God in the hands of angry sinners

    The problem today is that we are put off by the idea of any harshness coming from God, let alone the eternal kind. And if any trouble does come calling, we reverse Edward's sermon, putting God in the hands of angry sinners.