by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 17, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
It’s not at all controversial to note that Christmas, as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, does not always resemble the Christian festival celebrating Jesus’ birth. Commercial interests have exploited the season for profit, and it seems like all of us have...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 3, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Luther expands the “father and mother” of the fourth commandment to also mean “other authorities.” His reasoning for this is that all human leadership flows out of the leadership and responsibility God gives to parents over their children: parents cannot teach their...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 20, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
All of us know what it’s like to be humbled, and almost all of those times of humiliation have been forced upon us – after all, no sane person would willingly choose to be humiliated in front of other people. But Jesus’ humiliation is active: “he humbled...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 5, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
A person’s appetite for and willingness to change can frequently be a matter of personality – some people are by nature more conservative in their personality and tend to resist change by nature, while others have personalities that are more progressive and tend...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 22, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In Christianity there are two different, but related, senses of the word confession. On the one hand, there is a confession of faith – the public and private statement of what Christians believe. On the other hand, there is also a confession of sin – the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 8, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Every human belief or opinion is based upon a presupposition – a faith commitment that cannot be proven but can only be assumed. For instance, the difference between Christianity and atheism is not the difference between “faith” and “reason”, between opinion and...
