Prayer ventures: Jan. 1, 2023
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Jan. 1, 2023

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…

Prayer ventures: Dec. 27
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 27

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…

Lectionary blog: God’s intimate love
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: God’s intimate love

Lectionary for Jan. 1, 2023 First Sunday of Christmas Name of Jesus Numbers 6:22-27; Psalm 8; Galatians 4:4-47; Luke 2:15-21 During Christmas (we’re still in Christmas, after all), let’s focus…

An ordinary blessing for Christmas
Faith in Action

An ordinary blessing for Christmas

Some of the sagest advice we receive in this life can sound like a simple thing we already know deep in our bodies, but it gains authority when we hear…

Prayer ventures: Dec. 22
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Dec. 22

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…

Making God’s invisible love visible
Voices of Faith

Making God’s invisible love visible

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by the Lutheran World Federation as its 2022 Christmas message to the worldwide communion of churches.  For many of us, our earliest and…

Lectionary blog: It’s not what you think!
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: It’s not what you think!

Lectionary blog for Dec 25, 2022 Christmas Day Isaiah 62:6-12; Psalm 97; Titus 3:4-7; Luke 2:(1-7) 8-20 How many Christmas pageants have we watched? I’m 40 this year, and I…

When your Advent calendar is broken
Voices of Faith

When your Advent calendar is broken

I remember one Sunday in church when my father was preaching. He was getting all sorts of heated and passionate in the pulpit, you know, totally un-Lutheran in style. Back then…

Lectionary blog: On being righteous
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: On being righteous

Lectionary for Dec. 18, 2022 Fourth Sunday of Advent Isaiah 7:10-16; Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-25 Every third year it feels as if I’m surprised anew by Matthew’s…

The world is about to turn—behold!
Voices of Faith

The world is about to turn—behold!

Series editor’s note: Throughout 2022, “Deeper Understandings” has featured biblical scholars sharing some of their favorite books of the New Testament. Next year we will do the same with books…

Lectionary blog: What about John?
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: What about John?

Lectionary for Dec 11, 2022 Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10; Psalm 146:5-10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 How many times, when starting a new class, a new job or a…

Lectionary blog: Repentance & good fruits
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Repentance & good fruits

Lectionary for Dec. 4, 2022 Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12 Oh, to be a member of John’s assembly in the wilderness! The…