A concerned member of the ELCA contacted me, asking me to do a review of a new curriculum from Augsburg Fortress’s Sparkhouse. That curriculum is entitled T.B.D.: Think. Believe. Do.…
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In my introduction to intercessory prayer, I shared some of its historical background and some of its salient characteristics in the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. I wrote: Intercessory prayers…
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Many of you know that I write intercessory prayers that are posted on the Lutheran CORE website and sent to many individual pastors and congregations. I’ve done this for over…
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The Church sometimes uses a hub and spoke model of ministry. In it a central congregation serves as the hub of a wheel with spokes radiating outwards in all directions.…
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PUT ON HOLD Devotional for July 1, 2018 based upon Mark 5: 21-43 Picture the frantic father in our Gospel lesson for this morning. His little girl was at the…
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WHAT ARE WE TO BE ALL ABOUT? Devotional for February 4, 2018 based upon Mark 1: 29-39 What are we as God’s people to be all about? What are we…
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“If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear; but certainly God has heard; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.  Blessed be God,…
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Monday, December 11, 2017 Devotion “Hear my cry, O God; give heed to my prayer.  From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;…
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Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me. Â Deliver me from those who do iniquity and save…
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