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Prayer Ventures
June 12
Everyday, 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…
Voices of Faith
Interrupting ordinary time
Here we are, in the season after Pentecost that we sometimes refer to simply as “ordinary time.” It’s a long season, welcomed by the long days of summer. We might…
Faith in Action
Lutherans ‘light the darkness’ for Muslim neighbors
In several neighborhoods of Minnesota and Northwest Washington, Lutherans this week placed outside their homes, and on church lawns, signs wishing Muslim neighbors a blessed Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth…
Prayer Ventures
June 7
Everyday, 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…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary blog: Fully and unselfishly loved
Lectionary blog for June 12 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 2 Samuel 11:26-12:10, 13-15; Psalm 32; Galatians 2:15-21; Luke 7:36-8:3 One of my mother’s favorite stories to tell about me was…
Prayer Ventures
June 5
Everyday, 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…
Spiritual Resources
Study guide: 10-year-old wears tie and spirit of welcome
Grown-ups certainly can learn a lot when a 10-year-old boy serves as the congregation’s greeter-in-chief and biggest cheerleader. To discuss the article “10-year-old wears a tie and spirit of welcome,”…
Faith in Action
ELCA Reformation grants awarded
The ELCA Reformation Anniversary Grant Program, from the Thrivent Financial Foundation Reformation Anniversary Grant, has awarded 19 grants to assist with 500th anniversary observances. Support has gone to those who…
Faith in Action
10-year-old wears tie and spirit of welcome
Zachary Fetter looks like your average 10-year-old: he bowls, sings in his elementary school chorus, is interested in model railroads and trolleys, and his buddies call him by a cool…
From The Presiding Bishop
From persecution to witness
For many months now people have been asking for some kind of statement about the persecution of Christians around the world. It seems to be a straight-forward issue. Christians are…
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary blog: Shattering the cycle of fear
Lectionary blog for June 5 Third Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 17:17-24; Psalm 30; Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 My grandfather, Reid Chilton, was a great storyteller in the old Appalachian…
Faith in Action
Psalmist or physicist?
You could consider Steve Nahn a modern-day psalmist. David, the writer of Psalm 8, pondered with wonder: “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon…
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