by Glenn Sunshine | Oct 7, 2024 | Bible & Theology, Church History, Discipleship, Featured, History
Prayer in the Bible In the Bible, people prayed using several postures, most of which we do not use today. In the Old Testament, people often approached God the way they would an ancient Near Eastern king. Thus, they would lie prostrate before him, usually translated...
by Glenn Sunshine | Sep 30, 2024 | Culture & Society, Featured, Worldview, Worship
I went to the Touchstone Conference last week. The theme, “At Cross Purposes: Life and Death in the Negative World,” came from Aaron Renn’s First Things article, “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism.” Renn, who opened the conference, argues that after a high point in...
by Glenn Sunshine | Sep 23, 2024 | Church History, Discipleship, Featured
Recent church scandals involving prominent leaders in the Reformed and Charismatic worlds join a long and depressing list of pastors and ministry leaders whose reputations and life’s work has been damaged, discredited, or destroyed by sins they thought they could keep...
by Glenn Sunshine | Sep 16, 2024 | Bible & Theology, Discipleship, Featured
When Protestants (and I’m including Baptists in this category) talk about baptism, they usually focus on questions like when to do it and how to do it. The first of necessity includes the theology of baptism: is it an initiation into the covenant people of God, and if...
by Glenn Sunshine | Sep 9, 2024 | Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Culture & Society, Featured, History, Worldview
A third lesson from C.S. Lewis (see lessons one and two here and here) from my time at Oxford with my Pugcast cronies involves The Discarded Image, a book I have read multiple times and used in my classes. I thought I understood what Lewis was doing in the book, but...
