Prayer ventures: July 5
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 5

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: Royal overconfidence and the Spirit
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Royal overconfidence and the Spirit

Lectionary blog for July 11, 2021 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost 2 Samuel 6; Psalm 24 Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 This week’s lectionary readings tell the story of two very different…

Prayer ventures: July 1
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: July 1

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: June 30
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 30

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: Exclusion and embrace
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Exclusion and embrace

Lectionary blog for July 4, 2021 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13 Like the title of theologian Miroslav Volf’s life-giving book,…

Prayer ventures: June 22
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 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 life…

We belong <i>to</i> God
Voices of Faith

We belong to God

How do you deal with your critics? We’ve all got them—family, friends, co-workers, bosses, customers, next-door neighbors, internet strangers. Life with other humans inevitably involves conflict, debate and even division….

Lectionary blog: Blunting the sting of death
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Blunting the sting of death

Lectionary for June 27, 2021 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43 In this week’s readings, both the king of Israel and…

Prayer ventures: June 20
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 20

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: Overcoming <i>spiritual</i> evil
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Overcoming spiritual evil

Lectionary for June 20, 2021 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 1 Samuel 17:32-49; Psalm 9:9-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41 This week’s passages tell of two occasions when other-than-human evil attempted…

Prayer ventures: June 13
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: June 13

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…