by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 1, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The great redemptive event of the Bible is the exodus from Israel out of Egypt. God’s plan and actions to rescue his people from slavery form the foundational backdrop for how we understand his heart. But then why do so many texts in scripture seem to accept slavery...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 17, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Gospel is the proclamation that God has triumphed over sin and death through the work of Jesus. Every Christian sermon has to proclaim this Gospel by announcing the death and resurrection of Jesus. Since the whole text of Holy Scripture centers on Jesus’ death and...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 29, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Bible makes it clear that the Holy Spirit is still active in the life of Christ’s church. But what does this mean, and how does this look? For some, the Holy Spirit speaks directly in a miraculous way; for others the Holy Spirit guides by opening doors. How do we...
by St James Lutheran Church | May 20, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Scripture–in some ways–is a reflection of God’s mind, which means that understanding Scripture can never be completely mastered. Like a big city, there is something new and unexplored around every corner for the reader. In other words, reading the Bible is a great...
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:...
