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;...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 12, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
While the Bible insists that those who deny the reality of God are fools, this in no way means such skeptics are unintelligent. The biblical idea of “fool” and “foolishness” has less to do with brain power and more to do with an unwillingness to conform to reality:...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 30, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Islam and Christianity share a lot in common: they’re both Abrahamic religions – tracing their heritage back to God’s call of Abraham and the promises God made to his offspring, they both insist that polytheism is wrong and that there’s only one true God, they...
