by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 6, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Happiness is vitally important to the human experience, but in spite of our culture’s conviction of the primacy of happiness, and in spite of our culture’s current ability to easily acquire those items and experiences we all are convinced have the ability to make us...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 22, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The modern west holds that “all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” and that this enlightenment principle of human liberty is “self-evident.” But this deistic idea of God-created principles of freedom which are...
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,...
