by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 12, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In a culture obsessed with individual rights and personal autonomy, parenting and raising kids remains – mostly – a relationship recognized as being valuable to the extent that it is self-sacrificial. What is it about our relationship with our own children...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 29, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Why is marriage so important? The Bible describes God not as one powerful being, but as three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – who have always known and loved each other with complete commitment. And when they decided to create human...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 15, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
It’s true that different people find different particular things beautiful, ugly, or plain. This seems to validate the notion that beauty is subjective, that there is no accounting for taste, as the saying goes. But everyone agrees that eating really delicious food...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 1, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Jesus, quoting Moses, says that the greatest good for a human is to love God with all our being and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. This at least implies that self-love is good and healthy, but it places healthy self-love in the context of relationship. We...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 18, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In spite of our culture’s current skepticism about knowledge, people nevertheless are desperate to know what’s real and true. How is this possible? How can we find a model of knowing that doesn’t artificially divide “faith” and “knowledge”? How can we avoid the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 4, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Anger is not inherently good or bad, but is right or wrong depending on its motive and its object. Righteous anger, in fact, is necessary for a healthy humanity – to be confronted by gross injustice and not be angry would be inappropriate and (perhaps even)...