by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 24, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Depression, far from being a purely physical or purely psychological or spiritual problem, affects every part of the person who is experiencing it. Physical remedies – everything from eating right and becoming more active to perhaps taking doctor-prescribed...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 23, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Skeptics claim that there are contradictions between the texts of the four Christian gospels. But on closer inspection, what are frequently called contradictions are better understood – not as errors – but as differing perspectives on the same events. The...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 10, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
One of the defining features of our current postmodern world is an increase in selfishness, a rise that has resulted from the lack of a controlling belief system. With nothing larger than oneself to believe in, our natural tendency will be to act, think, and speak in...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 25, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The key to understanding the Bible is recognizing the genre: it’s not primarily a book of rules, it’s not primarily a book of inspiration, it’s not even primarily a book of religious belief – it’s primarily a story, narrative. And the Bible claims to be the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 11, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
There are roughly two parts to Christian fundamentalism: a commitment to the fundamental truths of the Bible, and a strong impulse to separate from the surrounding culture. Aaron and Chuck talk about what’s biblical and what’s unbiblical with this definition of...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 1, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Just about everyone agrees that evil exists, but why it exists causes much disagreement. According to the Bible, the evil things that happen in our universe – things like genocide and wars – cannot be explained in purely materialistic terms; after all, if...
