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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 17

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…

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Voices of Faith

The gospel is a promise

In [the gospel] the righteousness of God is revealed (Romans 1:17). In the preface to The Complete Edition of Luther’s Latin Works (1545), Martin Luther recorded how this verse in Paul’s…

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Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: No more sadness

Lectionary blog for April 21, 2019 Resurrection of our Lord Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; John 20:1-18 Resurrection Sunday is a day of unalloyed triumph for the church….

Prayer Ventures: April 13
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 13

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…

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Voices of Faith

Forming leaders: Then and now

One of the Reformation’s ambitious goals was to create an educated clergy. Both Protestant and Catholic reformers shared this goal, but the methods they chose varied somewhat: Protestants relied on…

The prophetic horror of <i>Us</i>
Voices of Faith

The prophetic horror of Us

(There are some spoilers for the film Us ahead.) By the time the monsters reveal themselves in the new horror thriller Us, viewers already have a good idea who they…

Prayer Ventures: April 3
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: April 3

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…

Study guide: For the sake of the earth
Spiritual Resources

Study guide: For the sake of the earth

The environmental crisis may be the No. 1 issue facing civilization. If our planet is not habitable, there is no future. Period. Game over. But as the damaging effects of…

Prayer Ventures: March 29
Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: March 29

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…

The grace of home
Mission & Ministry

The grace of home

Editor’s note: As Lutherans, grace is at the heart of our faith understanding. But what does it look like to actually live out grace? In this series, we explore what grace means and…

Our need to create and be created
Spiritual Resources

Our need to create and be created

Christie Purifoy’s new book Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace (Zondervan, 2019) invites us to notice the world around us and to create opportunities to share the gifts…

Lectionary blog: Removing reproach
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Removing reproach

Lectionary blog for March 31, 2019 Fourth Sunday in Lent Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32   The lectionary passages this week focus on one thing:…