by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 10, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In a world that, from the perspective of many people, is getting worse all the time, can we know if God is interested in this world? One of the problems with this question is that American Christians tend to have a Deist view of God – a God who lives in the sky and is...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 27, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In the midst of wars, violence, and global pandemics, it’s hard not to think about the end of the world. Especially since the end of modernism, with its bright optimism, almost everyone in the contemporary postmodern world are convinced the world is becoming a worse...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 13, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
We all need something to trust in – something that we can rely on when the chips are down. We also need hope – the belief that things are going to work out – in order to stay sane and committed in our daily lives. Chuck and Aaron talk about faith and hope, what they...
by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 29, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Many non-Christians see Christians as hypocritical – people who do not live up to their own stated standards. But this isn’t a particularly Christian problem, it’s a human problem: no one lives up to the goals and ideals of their own ideology. When non-Christians...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 18, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Christian New Testament teaches that Christians must be baptized. In this episode, Chuck and Aaron talk about the meaning of Christian baptism, the proper biblical mode of baptism, and the proper subject of baptism. They also talk about the Bible’s teaching that...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 4, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Following up on the last episode about prayer, Chuck and Aaron talk about the value of the Psalms as a way to intimately connect with God. The Psalms not only contain a wide variety of types of prayer, but all the Psalms work together to tell the story of God’s plan...
