by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 3, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When the Bible says that no one is good, it’s comparing fallen humans to the greatness, power, and moral purity of God. This doesn’t mean that there is no such thing as a good human – when we compare ourselves to other humans it’s hard to escape that some of us...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 20, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Christmas is unavoidable. Politicians utilize it to create a good vibe of accessibility and gentleness around themselves; the entertainment industry uses it to churn out cheap movies and even cheaper music, gobbled up by millions of consumers every year; and of course...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 6, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Happiness is vitally important to the human experience, but in spite of our culture’s conviction of the primacy of happiness, and in spite of our culture’s current ability to easily acquire those items and experiences we all are convinced have the ability to make us...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 22, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The modern west holds that “all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” and that this enlightenment principle of human liberty is “self-evident.” But this deistic idea of God-created principles of freedom which are...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 8, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
We all know people who are good people, and we all know people who are bad people. But does the human race as a whole tend to be one or the other? While the tendency, in our Instagram culture, is to see people as either good guys or bad guys, Christianity insists that...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 25, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
If God is God then his human creatures shouldn’t be surprised that he isn’t completely comprehensible. So when the Bible says that he is sovereign and does whatever he wants but also that he genuinely engages his people in conversation in prayer and adjusts what he...
