by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 22, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The word “sin” is a largely forgotten word. People in our culture find it an oppressive and judgmental word, and so we typically use it ironically or pejoratively. But the idea of a “sin” is one that’s held by all people everywhere, because sin is simply the violation...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 7, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In our philosophically relativistic culture, telling someone that you believe in a universal truth is at best, weird, and at worst, offensive. How should Christians, who are commanded by Jesus to “go into all the world and preach the gospel” to everyone, live out and...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 25, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When you compare what the Bible says about jobs and vocations with what our contemporary, materialistic, Western culture believes, it’s clear that our work is both less important than we’ve thought, and also more important than we’ve thought. Less important, because...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 3, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When non-Christians hear Christians talk about repentance, they usually think it’s an attempt by the Christians to call them out for their sins, but the biblical idea of repentance is much bigger than individual sins; repentance is about changing your entire way of...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 26, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
All Christians agree that Holy Communion was instituted by Jesus on the night before he was killed, but there the agreement frequently ends. Is the bread and wine we receive at communion an object lesson that helps us to remember and think about Jesus, or does Jesus...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 13, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
If God saves humans in order to have a relationship with them, then prayer is less a spiritual discipline that must be exercised, or a ritual that must be performed, or a “spiritual” way to work on our psychological help. Instead, prayer is a vital part of our...
