by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 5, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Bible claims that the creator God is a God of order and purpose, but everyone agrees that life frequently seems to be out of control. But God’s sovereign rule doesn’t always mean that life will be comfortable, prosperous, and orderly. In fact, God’s order and...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 22, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The death of Jesus of Nazareth, by crucifixion, is an irrefutable historical fact. But what his death means, if anything, is the subject of much debate. On one level, Jesus was the casualty of Imperial Rome’s claims to universal power – his claim to be in some sense a...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 8, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
We see lots of angels portrayed in religious art, and there are even television shows and movies that revolve around the activity of fictional angels, but what does the Bible say about angels, who they are, what they look like, and what they do? In this episode Chuck...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 24, 2021 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The idea of the rapture, a time when Jesus will come and take his followers out of the world, has been popularized in the broader culture through books like Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series. And while the Bible teaches that...
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...
