devotions
The resources below are meant enliven your imagination as you continue to work on your own spiritual formation.
"Jesus replied, 'You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.'" (Matthew 22:37)
Heart, soul and mind. We strive to make ourselves open to God's love, and at the same time ask God to open our hearts, souls and minds ever more widely to God's amazing grace. To help you with your personal journey of faith, consider the following links to blogs, ideas, and information.
Heart
Soul Mind
- The ELCA Worship Blog has been publishing weekly posts supporting worship in the home. These posts include the lectionary readings, hymn suggestions, and timely and relevant prayers of intercession written by Gail Ramshaw. These posts are published on Wednesdays, so that people may have them in preparation for worship on Sunday.
- The ELCA Worship Blog has also published a blog post compiling resources for daily prayer, as well as links to the daily lectionary and to publicly available hymns. The prayer PDFs in that blog post include Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer. There is also a PDF of Prayers and Blessings for Daily Use.
- Prayer Ventures Daily prayers for the life and mission of the church.
- Guided Meditations from Mindfulness for Teens
- Praying in Color from Sybil Macbeth
- In Italy, I’ve Rediscovered the Power of Three Types of Prayer from Christianity Today
- Praying in a Pandemic from Jen Pollock Michel
- 7 of the Best Apps for Daily Christian Meditation from Just Disciple
- Heart of the Matter: A Ritual for Breaking Bread and Sharing From the Heart from Spiritual Care Encounters
- Pandemic Prayer from Carol Penner of Leading in Worship Blog
- Resources for Praying Without Words from DisAbilities Ministries of the United Methodist Church
- Pray as You Stay from Jesuit Media Initiatives’s Pray As You Go
- A Liturgy for Those Flooded by Too Much Information from Every Moment Holy
- Breath Prayers for Anxious Times from Sarah Bessey
- d365 Daily Devotions
- Themed Meditations from Taketime
"Jesus replied, 'You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.'" (Matthew 22:37)
Heart, soul and mind. We strive to make ourselves open to God's love, and at the same time ask God to open our hearts, souls and minds ever more widely to God's amazing grace. To help you with your personal journey of faith, consider the following links to blogs, ideas, and information.
Heart
Soul Mind
- The Journal of Lutheran Ethics (This resource is an online journal written by Lutheran scholars, teachers, and pastors, that seeks to engage the pressing issues of our day.)
- Pastor Linderman's blog, "Faithful Encounters"
