by St James Lutheran Church | May 6, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
For Christianity, marriage is much more than a convenient way to order society and build and protect families. Marriage is at its heart a reflection of two deeper theological realities: first, it reflects the eternal relationship that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 22, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
For lots of Christians knowing when they were saved is very important, and knowing the date they were baptized or the date they first believed becomes a way to assure themselves of the security of their relationship with God. There are two questions behind this issue:...
by St James Lutheran Church | Apr 9, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Prayer, with Bible reading, is a conversation with God. But sometimes it seems that God isn’t listening to our prayers. Is this an illusion of our lack of faith, or is perhaps God not really listening? The Bible sometimes talks about God not hearing prayers, but how...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 25, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
One of the reasons Jesus called himself the Son of Man is the name’s vagueness. The title can simply mean “human”; this is the way the prophet Ezekiel seems to be using it during the many times he refers to himself in this way. There is no possible way this seemingly...
by St James Lutheran Church | Mar 15, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Because love is not primarily an emotional disposition toward someone else but is instead about self-sacrificial actions, trust is baked into such a relationship. We come to know and love someone precisely by trusting in that person enough to get close enough to live...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 25, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
All the statistics point to an increase in acts of aggression and violent crime in our society. But why is this happening? Secular thinkers used to opine that religion exacerbated violence; the theory being that commitment to absolute truth would cause people to...
