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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  • How to deep six the sin in your life

    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.

  • Getting comfortable with God’s mysteries

    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.

  • Hiding ourselves from the truth

    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.  

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

    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?

  • An unlikely cure for the blues

    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.

  • Our Freud-marinated culture

    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.

  • The delusion that doomed CNN+

    The delusion that doomed CNN+

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

  • The god that failed

    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.

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

    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.   

  • The death of death in the death of Christ

    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.