In the language of flowers paperwhite daffodils symbolize forgiveness I have found that many Christians as disciples of Jesus are not as well acquainted with his teaching and example as one would think that they might be. While it is tempting to blame pastors—“They are not teaching what Jesus taught
It’s game time! The Big Game Challenge has kicked off, and our church is racing toward the goal of ending hunger! While you are cheering on your team and celebrating with family and friends— let’s help tackle hunger together! From kickoff to the final whistle, Team Cincinnati and Team Los Angeles will seek to
When Jeff Crim learned that the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee had voted to remove the acclaimed graphic novel Maus from its eighth-grade curriculum, he was, in a word, mad. Crim, pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., phoned his friend Craig Lewis, rabbi of the neighboring Mizpah
“So pardon me for stumbling, I’m young and this is humbling And growth is rarely comfortable for me.” How many of us feel like we’re constantly falling short? The Road to Hope and Peace recently shared “Human,” an original composition from their music team that highlights the inadequacies we all
February 11: Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick. These two commemorations have coincided for thirty years now. In 1992 Pope John Paul II chose the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes to be World Day of the Sick. He made his reason for
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. God’s ways are not our ways. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. The Scripture reading for this Sunday is Luke 6: 17-26 Happiness and Sorrow. The homily is
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. Saturday,
Even if you’ve never been to an Outback Steakhouse (confession: I have not), you know what a bloom’ onion is, and you know it’s delicious. The onion is cut all down the sides, while keeping the bottom intact, breaded and deep fried, allowing all those individual little onion”petals” to get