by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 8, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
We all know people who are good people, and we all know people who are bad people. But does the human race as a whole tend to be one or the other? While the tendency, in our Instagram culture, is to see people as either good guys or bad guys, Christianity insists that...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 25, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
If God is God then his human creatures shouldn’t be surprised that he isn’t completely comprehensible. So when the Bible says that he is sovereign and does whatever he wants but also that he genuinely engages his people in conversation in prayer and adjusts what he...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 11, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Bible describes God as a God of love, but also frequently describes him angrily judging sins. For many people, Christians as well as non-Christians, these descriptions are very disturbing. If God is a God of love we don’t like to think about him getting angry. But...
by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 27, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In the Bible Christians are told to not love the world, but we’re also told to bear God’s image, and God describes himself as loving the world. This makes sense if we understand what St. Augustine meant by not loving anything or anyone out of order; in other words,...
by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 13, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Christians agree that God created the whole universe, but what does this mean for how humans are to rule over or take care of his environment? The Bible says that God created humans to be his representative on earth, which means we are to take care of the world like...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 30, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The God of the Bible commands his creatures to praise him – to talk and sing about how great he is, but the idea of a God like this who would demand praise and worship from his creatures is seen as incomprehensible and even offensive by many non-believers. Why...