Lectionary for Sept. 26, 2021 18th Sunday after Pentecost Esther 7:1-10, Psalm 124 James 5:13-20, Mark 9:38-50 This week’s texts all focus on some sort of drastic effort to save…
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…
Growing up in the ELCA, I remember being told more than once that the Psalms were powerful because they presented the entire range of human emotion. This advice was given…
Lectionary for Sept. 19, 2021 17th Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 31:10-31; Psalm 1; James 3:13-18, Mark 9:30-37 Real wisdom is displayed not in being coldly intelligent but in acting out…
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…
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 Sept 12, 2021 16th Sunday After Pentecost Proverbs 1:20-33; Psalm 19; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38 This week’s Gospel passage is one of my favorites for considering how Jesus…
There was once a time when two distinct peoples were trying to comprehend how they could be one people. One was a millennia-old people who had persevered through enslavement, oppression…
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…
“Can we talk?” the late comedienne Joan Rivers used to ask in her stand-up routines. Posing that question to today’s polarized culture, the answer is increasingly “no.” What passes for…
Lectionary for Sept 5, 2021 15th Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-33; Psalm 125 James 2:1-10, 14-17; Mark 7:24-37 This week, both the Hebrew Bible passage and the Gospel…
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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