by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 3, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Current Announcements, Podcast
Luther expands the “father and mother” of the fourth commandment to also mean “other authorities.” His reasoning for this is that all human leadership flows out of the leadership and responsibility God gives to parents over their children: parents cannot teach their...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 20, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
All of us know what it’s like to be humbled, and almost all of those times of humiliation have been forced upon us – after all, no sane person would willingly choose to be humiliated in front of other people. But Jesus’ humiliation is active: “he humbled...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 5, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
A person’s appetite for and willingness to change can frequently be a matter of personality – some people are by nature more conservative in their personality and tend to resist change by nature, while others have personalities that are more progressive and tend...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 22, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In Christianity there are two different, but related, senses of the word confession. On the one hand, there is a confession of faith – the public and private statement of what Christians believe. On the other hand, there is also a confession of sin – the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 8, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Every human belief or opinion is based upon a presupposition – a faith commitment that cannot be proven but can only be assumed. For instance, the difference between Christianity and atheism is not the difference between “faith” and “reason”, between opinion and...
by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 24, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Some Christians have held that cremation is not permitted by the Bible, on the grounds that bodies buried intact, or “sleeping”, are a concrete anticipation of the resurrection of the dead on the last day. But the Bible never expressly forbids cremation, and in at...
