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 June 9, 2024 Third Sunday after Pentecost 1 Samuel 8:4-20; Psalm 138; 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:1; Mark 3:20-35 I’m grateful for extended family these days and for grandparents who…
Series editor’s note: Throughout 2024, “Deeper understandings” will feature teaching scholars of the ELCA reflecting on the many ways that Lutheran theology makes a difference for our daily lives. —Kristin Johnston Largen, president…
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…
Editor’s note: This article originally ran May 26, 2016. Six hundred years before the birth of Jesus, in response to Exile in Babylon, Jeremiah wrote, “A voice is heard in…
Lectionary for June 2, 2024 Second Sunday after Pentecost 1 Samuel 3:1-10; Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23–3:6 The lectionary passages this week are about times when people…
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…
At the end of the movie’s first act, the peaceful Eagle Clan we’ve followed through the opening 20 minutes of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is in ruins….
Lectionary for May 26, 2024 The Holy Trinity and First Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 6:1-8; Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17 Have you ever read your Bible and come to…
As I write this it is early May. The leaves on the trees are still that new green that comes with spring. The lilacs are blooming with their intoxicating scent….
Lectionary for May 19, 2024 Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Romans 8:22-27; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 The Jerusalem Pentecost, as detailed in Acts 2, is one of my…
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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