Serving in small ways
Spiritual Resources

Serving in small ways

Lent is a season of reflection and renewal—a 40-day period in the liturgical calendar, from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, when Lutherans focus on the life and ministry of Jesus….

Prayer ventures: March 24
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 24

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Prayer ventures: March 23
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 23

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Legos for Lent
Faith in Action

Legos for Lent

JJ Dygert had always been something of a Lenten laggard until he began building his pre-Easter discipline around a lifelong love of Legos. “I tried to give up French fries,…

Lectionary blog: Repent or perish!
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Repent or perish!

Lectionary for March 23, 2025 Third Sunday in Lent Isaiah 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 It seems like adults face a lot of ultimatums, some of them…

Serving with presence
Spiritual Resources

Serving with presence

Lent is a season of reflection and renewal—a 40-day period in the liturgical calendar, from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, when Lutherans focus on the life and ministry of Jesus….

Prayer ventures: March 12
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 12

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Lectionary blog: The vixen and the hen
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: The vixen and the hen

Lectionary for March 16, 2025 Second week of Lent Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17–4:1; Luke 13:31-35 I don’t like to get partisan, because it seems like it generates…

Serving with humility
Spiritual Resources

Serving with humility

Lent is a season of reflection and renewal—a 40-day period in the liturgical calendar, from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, when Lutherans focus on the life and ministry of Jesus….

Prayer ventures: March 9
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 9

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Prayer ventures: March 7
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 7

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Lenten journeys
Voices of Faith

Lenten journeys

In the past, I usually equated Lent to time spent in isolation in nature, time to be with oneself and with God and spent in discernment—essentially an introspective journey. I…