by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 26, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Stoicism, which flourished in Greece around 250 years on either side of Christ’s birth, taught that the highest good for humans is to be ultimately happy. This happiness, though, is far different from our culture’s notion that happiness is equal to personal pleasure;...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 12, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
While the Bible insists that those who deny the reality of God are fools, this in no way means such skeptics are unintelligent. The biblical idea of “fool” and “foolishness” has less to do with brain power and more to do with an unwillingness to conform to reality:...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jan 30, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Islam and Christianity share a lot in common: they’re both Abrahamic religions – tracing their heritage back to God’s call of Abraham and the promises God made to his offspring, they both insist that polytheism is wrong and that there’s only one true God, they...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 4, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When it comes to current events Christians too frequently fall into one of the twin ditches of either allowing themselves to become spokespeople for one of the approved cultural positions (usually either “conservative” or “liberal”) or withdrawing from the world in...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 4, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The content of movies has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. What once was considered offensive and even pornographic is now commonplace. The false dichotomy of either mindlessly enjoying all contemporary media or withdrawing from and rejecting it undermines...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 19, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Our first impulse when someone we know and love goes through a season of suffering tends to be either to try to assert ourselves too much – by talking too much, using trite cliches, or by trying to cheer our friend up by distracting them, or by avoiding them...
