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…
This year, St. John Lutheran Church in Victor, N.Y., is preparing for its 10th Lint for Lent celebration, which aims to show what good can come from giving up “worthless”…
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…
JJ Dygert had always been something of a Lenten laggard until he began building his pre-Easter discipline around a lifelong love of Legos. “I tried to give up French fries,…
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 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…
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…
Three years ago, as many congregations were rebuilding after the pandemic, things at First Lutheran in Ketchikan, Alaska, were falling apart. The first issue was the church building, which was…
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…
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…
Chief operating officer, Niron Magnetics Bethel Lutheran Church, Northfield, Minn. My wife, Claire, and I connected with Bethel when we moved to Northfield from Minneapolis in 2001. I was the…
When Katrina Foster first stepped inside St. John Lutheran Church in New York City, she felt a sense of awe. This towering, neo-Gothic building in Brooklyn, a marvel of the…
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