While doing a Google search on “John Wesley discipleship,” I came across the 22 questions that the members of the Holy Club asked themselves in their daily personal devotions. The methodical way that the members of the Holy Club practiced godliness and pursued holiness earned them the derisive epithet, “Methodists.”
In this episode, we follow Herod the Great’s rise to power, watch Judea devolve into chaos under the rule of successively unstable Roman Emperors, and witness a climactic and devastating showdown between the Jews and their Roman occupiers. The Jewish Story
5 Faulty Assumptions about the Future ChurchCarey Niewhof identifies 5 faulty assumptions that church leaders are making about the church in 2022 and beyond. Gov. DeSantis, Let My Ministry Serve Migrant KidsIn preventing care for unaccompanied minors, Florida’s governor is interfering with US law and religious freedoms. It’s a TikTok
The application period for 2022 ELCA World Hunger Education and Networking Grants will open in early Spring. Get notified when the application opens by subscribing to the ELCA World Hunger blog in the box on the left side of this page. Hunger Education and Networking Grants are one of the
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. Sunday,
Olivia Moultrie became a professional soccer player at 13, she debuted on the Portland Thorns at 15, which is when she also had her first goal and first assist, making her the youngest person ever in the league to do that. So, what does she consider the most important thing
The mishnah at the bottom of yesterday’s daf listed a number of texts that one is forbidden to write on hol hamoed: Torah scrolls, tefillin andmezuzahs. The presumption is that whoever is writing these texts is doing so in order to sell them, and we’ve seen already that commerce is
One of the great political fights in medieval Christendom affected St. Thomas Aquinas’s own studies as a youngster. A fortuitous military conflict between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX spilling into the abbey of Monte Cassino, where Aquinas was doing his elementary studies, led to his parents sending him