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  • Faith Lens on Summer Hiatus

    Faith Lens will not be published over the summer. But don’t worry, it will be back in the fall.   The next Faith Lens is scheduled to be posted on September 5, 2023 for Sunday, September 10. ELCA Blogs

  • 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

    ​11Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 12Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. Daily Bible Verse

  • Celibacy in the Church and the Priesthood

    All of the official documentation of the Church agrees that virginity or celibacy, whether embraced as one of the evangelical counsels vowed by consecrated religious, or as part and parcel of the vocation to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic communion, carries a special “sign” value. Virginity or celibacy is

  • Faith in Christ Exists in Degrees

    Before he died, Larry Barkdull had written a substantial part of an unfinished manuscript  about the extraordinary power of faith,  particularly as a power that causes things to happen. This is faith on a higher level than we usually practice and understand it. With the permission of his wife, Buffie,

  • First Wave of GMC Conferences Launched

    First Wave of GMC Conferences Launched By Chassity Neckers Bishop Mark Webb of the newly-formed Global Methodist Church recently wrote about being in an airport and seeing a book entitled The In-Between: Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing. He didn’t buy the book (so it’s not

  • Ezekiel 39:7-8, 21-29

    ​7My holy name I will make known among my people Israel; and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8It has come! It has happened, says the Lord GOD. This is