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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: August 30

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…

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Theology & Beliefs

Up Close and Personal: 5 lessons from a visit to Luther Country

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation gives us an opportunity to take history beyond a textbook and to think about the reformers in new ways. One way to do this…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: August 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…

Our Lutheran Life: Louise Buckles
Theology & Beliefs

Our Lutheran Life: Louise Buckles

“Our Lutheran Life” invites and encourages ELCA members to tell contemporary stories inspired by the Reformation about how the power of God’s grace plays out in the complexities of daily…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: August 28

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…

Lectionary blog: Jesus doesn’t offer a free ride
Lectionary Blog

Lectionary blog: Jesus doesn’t offer a free ride

Lectionary blog for Sept. 3 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 15:15-21; Psalm 26:1-8; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28 I was listening to the comedian George Carlin one night on HBO. He…

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Theology & Beliefs

Christ alone

“If you know Jesus well, it is enough, even if you know nothing else. But if you do not know Jesus, whatever else you learn is nothing.” These words were…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: August 27

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…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: August 26

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…

Our Lutheran Life: Diane Jacobson
Theology & Beliefs

Our Lutheran Life: Diane Jacobson

Our Lutheran Life” invites and encourages ELCA members to tell contemporary stories inspired by the Reformation about how the power of God’s grace plays out in the complexities of daily…

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Prayer Ventures

Prayer Ventures: August 25

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…

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Voices of Faith

30 seconds of silence

For me, a powerful part of the Sunday liturgy is that short silence observed most weeks during the confession at the beginning of the service. We’ll belt out something mostly…