Competition benefits ELCA World Hunger   Tackle Hunger today: A message from Sierra Pacific Synod Bishop Mark Holmerud:   DONATE HERE to Tackle Hunger – ELCA World Hunger   Did you know that, for the past several years, the bishops who serve the synod where each team playing in the Super Bowl is from challenge […]

See salvation in your life today! Salvation seems like an old-fashioned concept – why do we need it today? How is it even relevant? We get confused because the world seems to offer so many attractive solutions to our problems. The world distracts us because the salvation that Jesus offers doesn’t usually appear like a […]

Consecration means “the act of making sacred” Consecration is not what usually comes to mind when we think of finances. But congregations that approach financial stewardship from a biblical perspective do not view the money Christians give to their church merely as a way to pay its bills. Rather, such congregations see financial contributions as […]

Thanks we give to God! Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States. But people of faith recognize that all we have comes from God. Here is a Thanksgiving prayer that you can use to bless you table and your home. It’s adapted from “Bread for the Day,” a beautiful resource for daily thanksgiving. […]

Jesus’s challenge: Follow me! To follow Jesus means to solve all kinds of problems – at the least, the really deep ones that matter. Where is my center? What can really satisfy me? Jesus said, “Follow me.” – Luke 9:51-62 But to follow Jesus also means to turn our backs on the things the world […]

God sends his Spirit on all of us! Spirit for a new kingdom: In a rush of wind and flame, God sent the Holy Spirit to those first followers of Jesus. Scared, confused, in hiding, far from home and afraid for their lives. Not exactly what we think of for the founders of a great […]