When: Every Sunday at 6 PM Where: St James Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall, 146 N Main St, Glen Carbon IL. You’re Invited – Discovering Christianity at St. James! Curious about what we believe? Want to grow in your faith or just connect with others in a welcoming...
The women who go to the empty tomb have a plan to anoint Jesus' body, but they soon realize the main problem with their plan is not merely that the body is missing but that they had planned to anoint his body in the first place. Today, we (and the culture) are...
Pilate and Jesus circle around the question of Pilate's power to condemn him or release him, and Jesus' refusal to play the power game with him. Instead, Jesus holds out the ultimate value of Truth for Pilate's consideration, but Pilate refuses to give up...
The Lord's Supper – the body and blood of Jesus in, with, and under the bread and wine – unites holy God and forgiven humanity through a Jesus-shaped, vertical connection. But the Lord's Supper also creates a Jesus-shaped, horizontal connection...
Legalism is the belief that humans flourish best when they have order, structure, and rules to guide them. The opposite philosophy is liberty – the belief that humans need freedom from restrictions to flourish. Christianity, while definitely promising freedom...
