Prayer ventures: April 10
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: April 10

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: March 12
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 12

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 blog: Walking in our place
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Walking in our place

Lectionary for March 13, 2022 Second Sunday in Lent Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17–4:1; Luke 13:31-35 Genesis 15 is one of my favorite passages to teach because it…

Lenten redirection
Living Faithfully

Lenten redirection

After my toddler gave the mop a “haircut,” I learned about the gentle discipline technique called redirection. When a child makes a mistake or has a meltdown, a caretaker suggests…

God’s son will rise again
Voices of Faith

God’s son will rise again

Once, after a 4 a.m. wake-up with my son, I asked him why he had risen so early. He lifted his arms up, looked at me and sighed, “The sun…

A healing and strengthening Lent
Spiritual Resources

A healing and strengthening Lent

The season of Lent is when I’m able to embrace Jesus as my brother perhaps more than at any other time in the liturgical year. I enter into the wilderness…

Invitations to come and look
Living Faithfully

Invitations to come and look

Focal verse “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” (John 4:29). Reflection “Mama, come look!” I can’t…

Wake up, church!
Voices of Faith

Wake up, church!

Disneyland is where almost all Americans feel pulled at least once in their lives. Disney’s mission is to provide happiness through the escape of routine life into the realm of…

Lectionary blog: Face like flint, tongue of a teacher
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Face like flint, tongue of a teacher

Lectionary for March 28, 2021 Palm Sunday Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 14:1—15:47 One of the images of Jesus that speaks most to my heart is that of…