by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 2, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Current Announcements, 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...
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...
