By B.J. Funk – Before leaving for a lengthy trip, I drove into the crowded gas station. All of the pumps were filled, so I pulled my car to be second in line. Our cars were facing, head-to-head, because my fuel tank was on the opposite side from hers. No
A new video from the BYU Speeches YouTube provides insight into our search for clearer and more frequent personal revelation. “Receiving is an action word”—and that applies to the basketball court as well as to our spiritual lives. The post VIDEO: How We Can Receive What the Lord is Waiting
You know you’ve made it onto the broader American food landscape when one of the top five most searched recipes in the United States is a classic Jewish cookie, amiright? According to Google search trends of 2021, the fifth most searched recipe in the entire country was hamantaschen! Hamantaschen are
5 Ways To Lead For Increased Spiritual Impact In 2022 “The new year is just around the corner. What is your perspective for 2022?” Hmmm. 7 Practical Thoughts on Forgiveness in LeadershipForgiving people and asking for forgiveness is tough work! Christ Came to Disarm Rebellious Sinners, But Not to Disempower
This service is asynchronous and may be read at any time of the day on the First Sunday after Christmas or at some other time in the Twelve Days of Christmas. Our Lord and his apostles urge us to live lives of love. Our Lord himself stresses that what marks
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,
When those shepherds, “abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night” received the grand announcement from the angel of the Lord, “for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord,” they were also told that there would
The Book of Proverbs, which offers a rather eclectic group of pithy maxims and teachings, observations about the world and human nature, and a few longer poems extolling universal virtues, frequently uses the word torah. In the opening verses of the book, which are framed as advice to a youth,