Robin Schumacher

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  Jul 25, 2022

  The faith double standard

  If you emotionally and mentally short circuit while watching the bizarre beliefs and actions of non-Christians become literally more bizarre on a daily basis, then I recommend you take the advice I heard William Lane Craig dole out on one of his podcasts: Don’t expect non-Christians to think and live like Christians.

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  Jul 18, 2022

  What the start of true saving faith looks like

  One thing’s for sure — there’s good biblical evidence that the start of real saving faith is repentance. Is it something you’ve experienced?

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  Jul 11, 2022

  The God you can’t make up

  This is why W. H. Auden believed in Jesus and said He is the opposite of what his fallen dreams could conjure up. Instead, He’s the God who is so contrary to what we’d want on our own, He has to be real.

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  Jul 4, 2022

  How to whip evil

  Whipping moral evil is done through a spiritual heart transplant (Ezek. 36:26) and transformation of the mind (Rom. 12:2) where “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Cor. 5:17).

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  Jun 27, 2022

  Fools are just killing us

  Unlearned and unwise people make all sorts of bad decisions that boomerang back not only on them but on everyone else as well.

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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?