by St James Lutheran Church | May 7, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
For Christians, the question of how we can be saved has too often been framed as a future question: how can I know I’m going to heaven when I die? But the Bible just doesn’t talk enough about going to heaven when we die for us to justify making that the baseline of...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 23, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
For the past three hundred years it has seemed obvious to many modern Westerners that cataclysmic, global floods are impossible, and so the biblical story of the great flood has been seen as a legendary myth highlighting the vindictive judgment of the Bible’s angry...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 9, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The question of whether Christians should go to church or not can only be answered by answering the question, are Christians the church or not. Once again, Western-style individualism blocks us from even understanding the nature of the problem. The Bible insists that...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 26, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Legalism is the belief that humans flourish best when they have order, structure, and rules to guide them. The opposite philosophy is liberty – the belief that humans need freedom from restrictions to flourish. Christianity, while definitely promising freedom...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 12, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Is Christianity merely a crutch for those who believe – a sort of whistling-in-the-graveyard, a head game naive and superstitious people play to avoid the hard reality of materialistic realism? The rise of the psychological sciences in the late 19th and early...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 26, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Stoicism, which flourished in Greece around 250 years on either side of Christ’s birth, taught that the highest good for humans is to be ultimately happy. This happiness, though, is far different from our culture’s notion that happiness is equal to personal pleasure;...
