by Glenn Sunshine | Oct 28, 2024 | Church History, Church Year, Culture & Society, Featured
At about this time of year, we regularly see lots of arguments about why Christians shouldn’t celebrate Halloween. Some say that it’s a Christianized version of Samhain (pronounced SAH-wen), a pagan holiday going back to the Druids, so we should have nothing to do...
by Glenn Sunshine | Oct 21, 2024 | Book Reviews, Books, Culture & Society, Featured, Worldview
Several years ago, when I was working on The Kingdom Unleashed, I attended a lecture by Os Guinness. We’d been acquainted for several years, so when I spoke with him, he asked me what I was working on. I told him that I was looking at the explosive growth of the...
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...
