Prayer Ventures: February 8
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 8

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

Encounter the grace of God
Spiritual Resources

Encounter the grace of God

Several years ago, I picked up Sharon Garlough Brown’s Sensible Shoes (IVP, 2013). The back cover promised that it would blend ancient spiritual practices with contemporary life using fiction. I…

Prayer Ventures: February 7
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 7

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

Prayer Ventures: February 6
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 6

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

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Spiritual Resources

Lectionary blog: Can’t stay on the mountain

Lectionary blog for Feb. 11 The Transfiguration of Our Lord 2 Kings 2:1-12; Psalm 50:1-6; 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9 Peanuts cartoon: Linus and Charlie Brown are on their backs…

Prayer Ventures: February 5
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 5

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

Prayer Ventures: February 4
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 4

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

Prayer Ventures: February 3
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 3

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

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Study Guides

Study guide: “It’s all about death—and life!”

“Nobody gets out alive,” the old quip goes. And like many wisecracks, it expresses well an underlying truth: All of us are born, all of us live and all of…

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Study Guides

Study guide: Member status

What’s a “member” of a church today, when we experience lots of mobility in our culture and “belonging” means something very different for us than our grandparents? One church is…

Prayer Ventures: February 2
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: February 2

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your…

A valentine gift from God
From The Presiding Bishop

A valentine gift from God

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” (Love Story). “Forgiveness guaranteed. Repentance optional” (sign in front of a Lutheran church).   This year Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day fall…