Prayer ventures: June 16
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 16

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for…
Prayer ventures: May 11
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: May 11

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for…
Grants help children’s ministries “realize their dreams”
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Grants help children’s ministries “realize their dreams”

For a congregation in Wisconsin, a grant helped transform a school into a community center focused on children. In Colorado, seed money allowed a congregation to expand their weekly family…
Prayer ventures: Oct. 28
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Oct. 28

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Prayer ventures: Sept. 26
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Sept. 26

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Micro-spiritual practice with kids
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Micro-spiritual practice with kids

In the fall, school accelerates the speed of parenting life. I can easily be overwhelmed. My spiritual practice evaporates, and I feel as if life is happening to me. In…
Summer faith
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Summer faith

Focal verse Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when…
A summer of faithful play
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A summer of faithful play

Focal verse: You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore (Psalm 16:11). Reflection My children never…
A well-loved faith
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A well-loved faith

Focal verse “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act” (Psalm 37:5).  Reflection Next to my armchair sits a wicker basket that holds books and…
New beginnings and the good news
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New beginnings and the good news

There are many ways to calculate “newness.” Clearly the new year is one—though the church’s new year started back in early December with Advent. Perhaps this season also means “new”…
An ordinary blessing for Christmas
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An ordinary blessing for Christmas

Some of the sagest advice we receive in this life can sound like a simple thing we already know deep in our bodies, but it gains authority when we hear…
Honor Advent through the saints
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Honor Advent through the saints

Editor’s note: This article originally ran Dec. 5, 2019. The weeks leading up to Christmas are a big deal in our house. Since I was a child, the season was…