by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 5, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The two most common notions in the West of what makes a man masculine are, on one hand, a physically strong, domineering man who leads through sheer force of physicality or personality and, on the other hand, a sweet, sensitive man who refuses to assert himself. Both...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 21, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Western Liberalism of John Locke, Rousseau, and the founding fathers of America, promised to set us free from the tyranny of kings and priests. That the God of the Christian Bible would be a casualty in this great purge seemed to many to be a necessary step on...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 7, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The separation of church and state is taken for granted in the current West, but this sort of division between a person’s religious beliefs and his or her public persona finds no place in the biblical worldview. So how are Christians supposed to think about their...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 24, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
One mistaken notion about Christianity is that its primary goal is to foster good ethical behavior. But the biblical reality is that Christianity is fundamentally God’s plan to rescue his humans and creation as a free act of grace. This grace is both necessary (since...
by St James Lutheran Church | Oct 10, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When Christians talk about the spiritual gifts, they frequently get hung up discussing the so-called charismatic gifts – healing, speaking in tongues, prophecy, etc., but this unfortunately short-circuits the very important discussion about what the spiritual...
by St James Lutheran Church | Sep 26, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Dating, since it is a fairly new phenomenon in how humans relate to each other, is not mentioned in the Bible. But the Bible has much to say about romantic relationships, and how we should look for a future spouse. First, the Bible highly values the marriage...
