by Glenn Sunshine | Oct 14, 2024 | Bible & Theology, Church History, Featured, History
Theologians have offered a variety of theories about the nature of salvation and what happened in the Atonement. Early Theories One of the earliest is known as the Ransom Theory. This is based on passages such as Mark 10:45 where Jesus says he came to give his life as...
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...
