Robin Schumacher

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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.   

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  Apr 11, 2022

  The death of death in the death of Christ

  Having lost my first wife decades ago to a rare form of thyroid cancer, I knew something was up when the procedures took much longer than expected. Our doctor friend ended up removing many premalignant lesions, which are the kind that can quickly turn into cancer.

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  Apr 4, 2022

  Being on the wrong side of God’s history

  The constant parade of prominent church leader failures is painful to watch. Take your pick from the recent events surrounding Hillsong or other pastors who have been caught robbing their churches, it’s a news stream that never seems to bottom out.

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  Mar 28, 2022

  How error enters the church

  All Arius (AD ca. 250 - 336) wanted was for the Church to say Jesus’ was homoiousion but not homoousion when it came to Christ’s relationship to God. That single letter addition to the word meant Jesus was “of like substance” when it came to God but not “of the same substance.”