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…
Lectionary for March 19, 2023 Fourth Sunday in Lent 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 When my eldest complained about his eyesight, we took him to the…
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…
Focal verse “I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in…
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…
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Lectionary for March 12, 2023 Third Sunday in Lent Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42 Because my wife and I were on international insurance that didn’t want to…
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…
Ash Wednesday is a poignant day for many rostered ministers. We trace the assurance of death on faces we love: old faces wrinkled with stories, newborn faces with eyes too…
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 as together…
When I dieted, I’d think about food all day. I tried many things, but for me the easiest was to divide every single food into strict categories: “good” and “bad,”…
I remember one Easter growing up in Toledo, Ohio, waking up very early for the sunrise service. My father, already at the church preparing worship, had pre-tied my necktie and…
Editor’s note: This article is excerpted from Alexander Jacobs’ Gospel Voices (Wipf & Stock, 2021), a series of imaginative monologues from various characters in the Gospels. The chapter “Josiah of…
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