Two words that stuck with me from my pastor’s sermon this past Sunday were grace and kindness. He ended the sermon by encouraging the members of the congregation to show grace and kindness to those in their lives, to those around them. Most of us would like to experience more
Fourth Sunday in Lent 9The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. 10While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the
A message from Tammy Jones West, 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering Program Director— I’m just, It’s just… Hello world. My name is Tammy Jones West. I am a Deacon in this church, from North Carolina, and I am serving as the Program Director for the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering. I am
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,
Meridian Magazine Podcast · Come Follow Me OT Podcast 14, “How the Plagues Defied the False Gods of Egypt," — Exodus 7-13 Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined today by Daniel C. Peterson, retired professor of Islamic Studies and leader of the Middle Eastern texts project at Brigham Young University.
When my children were in elementary school, they would occasionally bring home worksheets entitled “Fact or Opinion,” with lists of statements to be labeled “F” or “O.” Most of these were obvious (“Vanilla ice cream tastes better than strawberry”; “The sun is farther from the earth than the moon is”).
Why Do We Hate Each Other So Much? (5 Reasons Anger Is the New Epidemic) Christians aren’t exempt from the trend toward anger, outrage and division online. In fact, there are a good number of Christians who are fuelling it. What Stops People from Being Kinder? The Kindness Test is
Judaism plays a significant role in the play “The Lehman Trilogy.” As the characters’ success in business reaches astronomic levels, the degree in which they practice Judaism goes from strictly observant at the beginning of Act I (taking place in 1844), to barely practicing at the end of Act III (taking