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Musician’s Prayers

I’d like to come up with some musician’s prayers to be prayed before accompanying service. Care to share your own with me? 🙂

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12-Minute Prayer Challenge

Want to hear something awesome? Lutheran author Ruth Meyer contacted me with a super neat 12-Minute Prayer Challenge!

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Finding Hope: From Brokenness to Restoration

Lutheran author, social worker, and deaconess Heidi Goehmann releases a new book today: Finding Hope: From Brokenness to Restoration! (Also, UGH, this was supposed to post TUESDAY! So much for scheduling posts!) 

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Four Dangers of Ex Corde Prayers

Bryan Wolfmueller was on Issues, Etc., last week and ended up talking about ex corde prayer. Ex Corde prayers are prayers “from the heart.” They are often juxtaposed against written or corporate prayers. Anyway, he ended up considering four dangers of ex corde prayer, and I found them very interesting.

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I Will Grieve for the Suicide

If you are wrestling with grief following suicide, or if you have people in your life affected by Christian suicide, I want you to know that there is a Lutheran book you can read for free online: I Will Grieve for the Suicide: Gospel Comfort for Loved Ones Left Behind by Rev. Peter Preus.

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A Simple Explanation of Angels

CPH is releasing, today, A Simple Explanation of AngelsI’m thrilled. I feel like angels are such a misunderstood topic. Kindle is $.99 or a pack of 20 is $9.34 on sale. Awesome.

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12 Rules for Writing Commentary & Analysis

Ray Keating, prolific author of the Stephen Grant series and a number of non-fiction books, wrote an article, “12 Rules for Writing Commentary & Analysis” that I thought I’d share.

It seems pretty obvious that one may need to be increasingly careful in not only what we say but how we say it. It’s an additional level of discipline, but, for writers, I think that may be some of the best discipline we can aim for, right?

On a related note, or perhaps on an entirely opposite & balancing note, 🙂 here’s another link: this one to a Lutheran hymn of contentment that Rev. Fish wrote earlier this month.

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All the Household

Ladies & Gentlemen, there’s a neat website that seeks to foster Lutheran liturgical living at home. It’s called All the Household and offers some neat resources to help incorporate the church year & liturgical tradition into home life.

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Mission Nation Publishing

Ladies & Gentlemen, let’s talk about Mission Nation Publishing! This organization is a non-profit ministry partnership between Peace Lutheran (LCMS) and the (LCMS) Florida/Georgia District to give a voice and raise awareness of missionaries from around the world who serve in America.

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Absolutely Fearless

You’re going to love this. I’ve just found out about a real Lutheran hero, Raymond H. Littge, and a new book about him, Absolutely Fearless: The Life of Raymond H Littge, Missouri’s Top Scoring WWII Fight Pilot Acepublished last November. AND, to top off that, all profits from the book go to the Lutheran Heritage Center and Museum in Altenberg, Missouri! What a great tribute to Lutheran history in Perry County!

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