Lectionary blog for July 14, 2019 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 82; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37 Have you ever been in a coffee shop, or even in a…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Lectionary blog for July 7, 2019 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 2 Kings 5:1-14; Psalm 30; Galatians 6:7-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Like many ELCA Lutherans this spring and summer, I’ve been…
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life…
Lectionary blog for June 30,2019 Third Sunday after Pentecost 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14; Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62 This week’s lectionary readings are about masters selecting disciples…
Rozella Haydée White’s new book Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World provides an invitation into deeper relationships with God, ourselves and the people around us….
Lectionary blog for June 23, 2019 Second Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 19:1-15a; Psalms 42 & 43; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39 One of the central actions that Jesus says will…
I thank Ethel and Ed for teaching me about the Trinity. They weren’t seminary professors or pastors or even Sunday school teachers. They were pillars of my congregation who had…
Editor’s note: In this five-part series, former ELCA Presiding Bishop Herbert Chilstrom examines the authority and interpretation of the Bible. Part two explored using the Bible in context. The process…
Liturgy is important—not each constituent part—but the basic structure of corporate worship: gathering, word, meal and sending. It’s a discipline Lutherans willingly undertake because it helps individuals and the entire…
Lectionary blog for June 16, 2019 First Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 Growing up in a mainline tradition, I never learned much about…
During a sabbatical several years ago, I did research for what became a book on pastoral truth-telling and came across an intriguing idea authored by Sissela Bok, an ethicist and…
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