The third of St. James' three pillars is restoration – God's mission to restore Glen Carbon for himself. The power behind this massive task is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, who brings Jesus into the midst of his people and sends us out under this...
Summer Sunday School The Education Team Needs You! Please consider signing up to assist one Sunday during the summer session. Open slots can be found by clicking through the following link: Armor of God Summer Sunday School
The St. James Fellowship Team led by Jen Weber is committed to providing many fellowship and service opportunities for our church family. From coordinating funeral luncheons to organizing fun-filled events, they’re here to ensure everyone feels connected and...
When Jesus ascended to the right hand of his Father, he was given complete power and lordship over everything in heaven and earth. Also, through his ascension he now "fills all things", so that he is ubiquitously present with his whole church on earth. And...
For Christians, the question of how we can be saved has too often been framed as a future question: how can I know I’m going to heaven when I die? But the Bible just doesn’t talk enough about going to heaven when we die for us to justify making that the baseline of...
Jesus' heart for healing, his power to heal, and the way he applies this healing to his fallen human race can be experienced in the power of His word and in the family of the Christian community. Readings and sermon were delivered by Pastor Aaron Mueller. Order of...
The perfect love we have been given in Jesus is able to cast out our fear of judgment by putting us into a community of forgiven sinners, whose unconditional love for us is a constant manifestation and reinforcement of God’s infinitely forgiving love for us in Jesus....
Dear Members of St. James Lutheran Church, We are thrilled to share with you the exciting progress we have made as a congregation in our journey of spiritual discernment and planning. Over the past year, St. James has embarked on a transformative partnership with the...
For the past three hundred years it has seemed obvious to many modern Westerners that cataclysmic, global floods are impossible, and so the biblical story of the great flood has been seen as a legendary myth highlighting the vindictive judgment of the Bible’s angry...
The false teachers John is defending his church against made much of their own leadership, creating doubt in the minds of her members by causing them to selfishly look for the locus of their relationship with God inside themselves. But John draws them back by making...
