Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources and events from other organizations and institutions. These Lutheran and ecumenical partner organizations work alongside the ELCA to support worship leaders, worship planners, musicians, and all who care about the worship of the church. Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival Transforming and connecting lives
22These words the LORD spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me. Daily Bible Verse
Today’s Reading: Read Matthew 8:5-13; 11:1-15; Luke 7 Let’s play a guessing game. Can you guess what I’m describing? It’s a fruit. It’s red. It grows on a tree and has a stem and a core. Sometimes people put caramel on it. People also use it to make pies. And
Why Isn’t the Good News Connecting With People? If, as we say, the “Gospel of Jesus Christ” is heaven’s Good News, and if this good news is the answer to mankind’s deepest, biggest, worst problems, and if it’s free and eternal and for everyone, one would think people would be
Unlike spontaneous healing miracles, which really do occur with some frequency and are acknowledged by skeptics and believers alike, including medical professionals who are atheists, levitations and bilocations are extremely rare events that are seldom taken seriously outside certain belief systems. Levitation and bilocation are but two of several physical
Beginnings It’s a typical Friday night in the fall of 1979 at Old Dan Tucker’s restaurant in Orem, Utah, and the dinner crowd has begun to thin. The wait-staff bustles about, delivering desserts and dinner checks and cleaning up for the night. At the grand piano, a young man is
“For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in prayer. This resource is prepared by a variety of leaders in the ELCA and includes prayer prompts, upcoming events and observances, and prayer suggestions from existing denominational worship materials. You
14But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. 15Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a