Find your joy this Lent
Voices of Faith

Find your joy this Lent

Lent beckons with an invitation to introspection, exploration of the motivations and posture of one’s heart, and focused repentance when needed. At the same time, I encourage you to remember…

Prayer ventures: March 31
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 31

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 30
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 30

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…

Lint for Lent
Living Faithfully

Lint for Lent

This year, St. John Lutheran Church in Victor, N.Y., is preparing for its 10th Lint for Lent celebration, which aims to show what good can come from giving up “worthless”…

Prayer ventures: March 26
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 26

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: Making all things new
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Making all things new

Lectionary for March 30, 2025 Fourth Sunday in Lent Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:13, 11b-32 One of the details that always sticks out to me in…

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
Living Faithfully

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…