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…

Prayer ventures: March 6
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 6

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…

The power of staying
Living Faithfully

The power of staying

Focal verse “Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray’” (Matthew 26:36). Reflection…

Prayer ventures: March 5
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 5

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…

An annual reminder
Voices of Faith

An annual reminder

I grew up attending a hodgepodge of Protestant churches, depending on where we lived in any given year. None of them had Ash Wednesday services, or if they did, my…