by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 28, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
What does it mean when someone wears a cross? What if that person is a Christian, or a non-Christian? Is it ever wrong to wear a cross? There are roughly two answers to this question. First, since the cross serves as a symbolic reminder for Christians that the creator...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 14, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
An idea frequently heard from contemporary Christians is that the Bible is God’s “love letter” to humanity. But is this true? And if it is, why does so much of the Bible not read like a love letter? In this episode Chuck and Aaron discuss the question of the Bible’s...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 31, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
How do pastors become pastors? How does God make pastors, and how do they know that’s what God wants them to be? And how do they know what church they should be at. In this episode Chuck and Aaron answer these questions and also talk about Aaron’s call to be a pastor....
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 17, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
It’s not at all controversial to note that Christmas, as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, does not always resemble the Christian festival celebrating Jesus’ birth. Commercial interests have exploited the season for profit, and it seems like all of us have...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 3, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Luther expands the “father and mother” of the fourth commandment to also mean “other authorities.” His reasoning for this is that all human leadership flows out of the leadership and responsibility God gives to parents over their children: parents cannot teach their...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 20, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
All of us know what it’s like to be humbled, and almost all of those times of humiliation have been forced upon us – after all, no sane person would willingly choose to be humiliated in front of other people. But Jesus’ humiliation is active: “he humbled...
