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...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 1, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The heart of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the reality of desire, the goal of nirvana, and the solution of the eight-fold path. In the case of suffering and desire, Buddhism and Christianity agree that all of life is broken, and at the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 25, 2023 | Announcements, Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
One of our most basic assumptions in the West is that each person should be allowed to judge for themselves what’s right and wrong. This, along with the companion belief that God – if he does exist – does not interact with our world means that anything...
