by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 30, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Current Announcements, 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...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 4, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Many Christian church bodies in the United States have presidents or bishops that function as administrative heads or public faces of that particular church. But none of these quite matches up to the role of the Roman Catholic Pope—the Bishop of Rome. Does not having...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 21, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, 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...
