by St James Lutheran Church | May 25, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When you compare what the Bible says about jobs and vocations with what our contemporary, materialistic, Western culture believes, it’s clear that our work is both less important than we’ve thought, and also more important than we’ve thought. Less important, because...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 3, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When non-Christians hear Christians talk about repentance, they usually think it’s an attempt by the Christians to call them out for their sins, but the biblical idea of repentance is much bigger than individual sins; repentance is about changing your entire way of...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 26, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
All Christians agree that Holy Communion was instituted by Jesus on the night before he was killed, but there the agreement frequently ends. Is the bread and wine we receive at communion an object lesson that helps us to remember and think about Jesus, or does Jesus...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 13, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
If God saves humans in order to have a relationship with them, then prayer is less a spiritual discipline that must be exercised, or a ritual that must be performed, or a “spiritual” way to work on our psychological help. Instead, prayer is a vital part of our...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 29, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Christian unity frequently seems to be a reality in theory only. There are so many different opinion groups within the Christian world, so many denominations, and so many subgroups even within those denominations. The primary reason for disunity in general, including...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 15, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Evangelism is inherently uncomfortable in our postmodern culture – the notion that one person has a right to tell someone else what they should think is deeply troubling to many of us. Chuck and Aaron discuss how to do Christian evangelism in a way that respects this...
