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...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 11, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
For Christians, any discussion about any topic must begin and end with the Bible, because if God is God we cannot afford to deny him the final word. When it comes to topics upon which the prevailing culture diverges from what God says in the Bible, the temptation for...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 28, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
What does it mean when someone wears a cross? What if that person is a Christian, or a non-Christian? Is it ever wrong to wear a cross? There are roughly two answers to this question. First, since the cross serves as a symbolic reminder for Christians that the creator...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 14, 2025 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
An idea frequently heard from contemporary Christians is that the Bible is God’s “love letter” to humanity. But is this true? And if it is, why does so much of the Bible not read like a love letter? In this episode Chuck and Aaron discuss the question of the Bible’s...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 31, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
How do pastors become pastors? How does God make pastors, and how do they know that’s what God wants them to be? And how do they know what church they should be at. In this episode Chuck and Aaron answer these questions and also talk about Aaron’s call to be a pastor....
