by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 21, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Current Announcements, Podcast
Many Christian churches avoid talking about biblical election – the teaching that those who are believers have come to faith because God chose them – because it seems exclusive and non-egalitarian. How can God love everyone but only choose some? But in the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 7, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
It might be easy when visiting a church to think that the pastor is in charge. But many times once you get involved in that church and see behind the curtain it becomes apparent that other groups hold the power. What all of these churches have in common, though, is...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 19, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Humans long for God, if he exists, to prove that existence, and many Christian philosophers have proposed arguments, or proofs, for that existence. Many arguments have been advanced toward that end; for instance, the cosmological argument which states that since...
by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 9, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The current day nation of Israel was established in 1948, a place for many of the Jews who survived the holocaust to call home. Many Christians in Europe and North America consider this to be a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies to Abraham and his offspring that...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 26, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When the Athanasian Creed is read on Trinity Sunday every year, many Protestant Christians struggle with the last line, “Those who have done good will enter into eternal life, but those who have done evil will go into eternal fire.” This implication that salvation is...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 12, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In our cynical culture, doubting everything has become a default mode. For Christians who believe that being made right with God happens through trusting Jesus, these doubts can precipitate an existential crisis. Some Christians feel guilty for having doubts, but...
