Lectionary blog: Making all things new
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Making all things new

Lectionary for March 30, 2025 Fourth Sunday in Lent Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:13, 11b-32 One of the details that always sticks out to me in…

Prayer ventures: March 20
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 20

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Prayer ventures: March 19
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 19

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Lectionary blog: Repent or perish!
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Repent or perish!

Lectionary for March 23, 2025 Third Sunday in Lent Isaiah 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 It seems like adults face a lot of ultimatums, some of them…

Prayer ventures: March 16
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 16

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

Lectionary blog: The vixen and the hen
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: The vixen and the hen

Lectionary for March 16, 2025 Second week of Lent Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17–4:1; Luke 13:31-35 I don’t like to get partisan, because it seems like it generates…

Prayer ventures: March 7
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 7

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

The power of staying
Faith in Action

The power of staying

Focal verse “Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray’” (Matthew 26:36). Reflection…

Lectionary blog: In praise of repetition
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: In praise of repetition

Lectionary blog for March 9, 2025 First Sunday in Lent Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13 My father-in-law just retired, and we hosted a banquet to celebrate…

Prayer ventures: March 3
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: March 3

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…

ELCA presiding bishop issues response in support of Jerusalem patriarchs on Gaza
Faith in Action

ELCA presiding bishop issues response in support of Jerusalem patriarchs on Gaza

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a response in support of Jerusalem patriarchs on Gaza. “Recently, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued an urgent plea to…

Prayer ventures: Feb. 27
Prayer Ventures

Prayer ventures: Feb. 27

Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs…