Prayer ventures: Dec. 8
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 8

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…

Lectionary: Initial disappointment & later fulfillment
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary: Initial disappointment & later fulfillment

Lectionary blog for Dec 13, 2020 Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Psalm 126; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28 Sometimes I notice a kind of buzz among my…

The humanity of the nativity
Spiritual Resources

The humanity of the nativity

If we had lived in Bethlehem when Jesus was born, would we have believed that this newborn was actually God? This is the question Martin Luther asked in much of…

Prayer ventures: Dec. 7
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 7

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…

Prayer ventures: Dec. 6
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 6

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…

Prayer ventures: Dec. 4
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 4

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…

Nunca estamos solos
From The Presiding Bishop (Spanish)

Nunca estamos solos

La habitación era sencilla y tenía poca iluminación. Nos sentamos en círculo en sillas plegables —unas jóvenes hondureñas y algunos de nosotros de la ELCA. Habíamos ido a Honduras para…

Study guide: Living in Mary’s time
Study Guides

Study guide: Living in Mary’s time

Every mother who experiences the nine-month miracle of childbirth knows about waiting, wondering, hoping, dreaming and praying. Imagine how those emotions and experiences were for the mother of God incarnate….

Study guide: Expanding the idea of family
Study Guides

Study guide: Expanding the idea of family

“You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family,” says the old adage, implying that we are simply stuck with whatever oddball characters who comprise our families of…