by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 27, 2026 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Current Announcements, Podcast
The apocalyptic fears many have surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) evoke a dystopian image of robots someday ruling the world and turning humans into their slaves. But on the other hand, the dreams some have of a utopian paradise in which computers...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 13, 2026 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
What does an experience of the Holy Spirit actually look or feel like? Within the Christian tradition, there is often a sharp divide in how this question is answered. Some believe the Holy Spirit frequently acts independently of the Bible, providing direct...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 30, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The word Paradise is used infrequently in the Bible. Jesus tells the thief on the cross that they will be together that day in Paradise, and Paul says in 2 Corinthians that he had a powerful out-of-body (maybe!) experience in Paradise. Paradise is a Persian word...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 16, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Those who have not grieved deeply are often disturbed during the holidays by those who have, since the latter sometimes seem to refuse to participate in the jollity of the season. This notion—that the joy, lights, and merriment of Christmas ought to raise the spirits...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 2, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Everyone knows that it’s not possible for a virgin to get pregnant. Many have considered this impossibility as the open-and-shut reason for disbelieving in the biblical teaching of the virgin birth of Jesus. Others though, have seen this impossibility as the whole...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 18, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
This episode is a sister to Episode 126: Israel and Palestine. Many depictions of Muslims in the West picture Islam as a religion of violence, and in a post-9/11 world, it’s certainly not difficult to believe that this is true. But while there is certainly violence in...
