Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Tuesday, Dec. 27: We humbly give thanks to God for our baptism through which we are joined with the body of Christ—all believers—and cleansed of our old self and made new, not because we did anything to deserve it, but because of God’s abundant mercy.

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