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• Prayer ventures: Oct. 4 October 4, 2024
  Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Friday, Oct. 4 Feast of St. Francis of […]
  Andrea Kulik
• Bidden or not bidden, God is present October 4, 2024
  A dear friend gave me a plaque inscribed with the words “Vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit.” Bidden or not bidden, God is present. It’s an intriguing proverb, thought to have originated from the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece and later found in an anthology of Greek and Latin proverbs compiled by Erasmus in […]
  Andrea Kulik
• Invocado o no invocado, Dios está presente October 3, 2024
  Un querido amigo me regaló una placa con las palabras “Vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit”. Invocado o no invocado, Dios está presente. Este es un proverbio intrigante que, según se cree, se originó en el oráculo de Delfos en la antigua Grecia, y posteriormente fue encontrado en una antología de proverbios griegos y latinos […]
  Andrea Kulik
• Prayer ventures: Oct. 3 October 3, 2024
  Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Thursday, Oct. 3 We give thanks for the […]
  Andrea Kulik
• Civic engagement and loving-kindness October 3, 2024
  We are less than two months from Election Day. Nov. 5 is a significant day in our country as we exercise our right and responsibility as citizens to vote. Aside from the presidential election, which has dominated the headlines, we will also vote for state and local leaders—decisions that directly impact our communities. Voting is […]
  Rachel Kingsley
• Prayer ventures: Oct. 2 October 2, 2024
  Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Wednesday, Oct. 2 “Yours the soil that holds […]
  Andrea Kulik
• Serve with joy October 2, 2024
  Focal verse “Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received” (1 Peter 4:10). Reflection At our church, fourth graders are invited to learn how to serve in worship as acolytes. My daughter counted down the days until the training. During worship, she’d watch […]
  John Potter
• ELCA Conference of Bishops emphasizes the need to speak the truth October 1, 2024
  The ELCA Conference of Bishops has issued a statement on the need to speak the truth. “We know that the power of truth is greater than the power of deceit,” the statement read, in part. “We, the members of the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, speak with one voice to […]
  John Potter
• Reflection: Shadowlosses October 1, 2024
  The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). At 67, I’ve reached the age when the deaths of dear ones are increasingly common events. I remember that my Nana always turned to the obituaries first when she read her New York Times. She would joke that as long as she didn’t […]
  Andrea Kulik
• Prayer ventures: Oct. 1 October 1, 2024
  Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Tuesday, Oct. 1 International Day of Older Persons […]
  Andrea Kulik