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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 14h
Preach the Gospel every day. When necessary, use words. —Francis of Assisi #saintfrancis #stfrancis #stainedglass (Stained glass sun and moon windows at Faith #Lutheran Church, Fairlawn, Ohio.)
Stained glass window with an image of the blazing sun in red and yellow.Stained glass window with an image of a crescent moon in orange and gold.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do all things without murmuring and arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world. -Philippians 2
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. —Matthew 6
A sparrow sits on a fencepost eating seeds from a vine.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’ —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We looked at the name,” he said, “and we said, ‘Yes, we are #evangelical, but evangelical has a lot of baggage.’ We know many people who will not use the term.” religionnews.com/2026/09/30/e...
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Evangelical Press Association to vote on dropping the 'e-word'
(RNS) — The group of journalists wants to change its name to the Christian Communicators Network, saying the word 'evangelical' has too many political overtones and a bad public image.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To have faith is to remember and wait, and to wait in hope is to have what we hope for already begin to come true in us through our hoping. Praise him. —Frederick Buechner
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ACTION ALERT Wear orange on September 30 and share to social media using hashtags: #TruthAndHealing #OrangeShirtDay #ELCA #Lutheran act.elca.org/page/94320/a...
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ACTION ALERT: Support the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools Act
With the reintroduction of the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools Act in both the House and Senate, now is the time to remind Congress of its responsibility to survivors of the In...
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. —Colossians 3
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Lord is my strength and my shield;  in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults,  and with my song I give thanks to him. —Psalm 28
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The “kingdom of heaven” is not about people going to heaven. It is about the rule of heaven coming to earth. —N.T. Wright
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.” —Matthew 21
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The righteousness of the righteous shall be their own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be their own. —Ezekiel 18
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the foreigner. The immigrant who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you. You shall love the immigrant as yourself, for you were refugees in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. —Leviticus 19
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ACTION ALERT Native American leaders have called on denominations to do the work of finding all records of their involvement. #ELCA Truth-Seeking & Truth-Telling Initiative efforts began in earnest in 2022. We have a timely opportunity to urge the US to do the same. act.elca.org/page/94320/a...
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ACTION ALERT: Support the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools Act
With the reintroduction of the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools Act in both the House and Senate, now is the time to remind Congress of its responsibility to survivors of the In...
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. —Psalm 119
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“ #Jesus is not front and center with these guys,” he said. roysreport.com/the-rise-of-...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros | The Roys Report
A small but growing group of pastors and online influencers is preaching white supremacy and antisemitism as Christian doctrine.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A tyrant oppresses the bodies of his subjects, but what is more damnable, he threatens their spiritual growth, for he is set on his own power, not their progress. He is suspicious of any dignity they may possess that will prejudice his own iniquitous domination. —Thomas Aquinas
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is enough for every one. هناك ما يكفي للجميع. Kaikille riittää. Il y en a assez pour tout le monde. Ina heddi e kala gooto. Es ist genug für alle da.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. ‍O my God, in you I trust.   ‍Make me to know your ways, O Lord. Teach me your paths. ‍He leads the humble in what is right and teaches the humble his way. —Psalm 25
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He called a child and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” —Matthew 18
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are…times…when strong as life itself comes the sense that there is a holiness deeper than shabbiness and horror and at the very heart of darkness a light unutterable. —Frederick Buechner
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Efficiency is not a virtue, nor speed.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You must not distort justice. You must not show partiality. You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live. —Deuteronomy 16
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just say no.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Praise the Lord!  O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,  for his steadfast love endures forever. ‍Who can utter the mighty doings of the Lord  or declare all his praise? ‍Happy are those who observe justice,  who do righteousness at all times. —Psalm 106
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On this International Day of #Peace, gifts in support of #Lutheran Disaster Response are empowering peace-building around the world. #ELCA #PeaceDay give.elca.org/page/88370/d...
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Support Lutheran Disaster Response!
Lutheran Disaster Response shares God's hope, healing and renewal with people whose lives have been disrupted by disasters in the United States and around the world. When the dust settles and the head...
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ —Matthew 9
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Are you envious because I am generous? So the last will be first, and the first will be last. —Matthew 20
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult. —Martin Luther
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
 Is this the exultant city  that lived secure, that said to itself,  “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become,  a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it  hisses and shakes the fist. —Zephaniah 2
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you feel called to be a leader in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America? Join a discernment event on September 27. #ELCA More info here: elcaseminaries.org
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Lutheran Advocacy Ministry AZ has created A Cong Guide for Election-Related Disruption to help congs prepare for extraordinary circumstances surrounding an #election—incl uncertainty, misinfo, intimidation, violence or unexpected armed presence at a polling place. #ELCA lamaz.org/news-blog/ne...
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Congregational Guide for Election-Related Disruption — Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona
Help your congregation prepare for election uncertainty, misinformation, intimidation or violence with LAMA’s practical, faith-based discussion guide.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Many mainline churches are closing, and when they close, sometimes the only church in town is a big evangelical church — where if you go, often your ideology will slide to the right as you become invested there.” religionnews.com/2026/09/17/w...
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Why are women leaving churches and where are they going instead? A journalist explains.
(RNS) — Sarah Stankorb's latest book, ‘Damned If She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion,’ published on Tuesday.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AIJesus grants no wisdom.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. For we cannot do anything against the truth but only for the truth. —2 Corinthians 13
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.  His greatness is unsearchable. ‍The Lord is gracious and merciful,  slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. —Psalm 145
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel and in no way frightened by those opposing you. —Philippians 1
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For all thy blessings, known and unknown, remembered and forgotten, we give thee thanks. Amen.
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Diane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whenever God’s people fail to speak truth, expose the deeds of darkness, and function as a refuge for the abused, afflicted, and needy, they have not only failed you—they have failed our God, for they look nothing like Him.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
O give thanks to the Lord of lords, who alone does great wonders, who by understanding made the heavens, who spread out the earth on the waters, who made the great lights, the sun to rule over the day, the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever. —Psalm 136
A blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I beg that, chiefest of all, you will remember constantly that not to share our own riches with the poor is a robbery of the poor, and a depriving them of their livelihood; and that that which we possess is not only our own, but also theirs. —John Chrysostom
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All our meals and all our living make us sacraments of you, that by caring, helping giving we may be disciples true. Alleluya! Alleluya! We will serve with faith anew! —Harold Friedell (Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether)
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Give me understanding, and I shall keep your teaching; I shall keep it with all my heart. Turn my eyes from beholding falsehood. Give me life in your way. —Psalm 119
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Our Father in heaven, may yr name be revered as holy. May yr kingdom come. May yr will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, & forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors, & do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. —Matthew 6
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will die by the sword. —Matthew 26
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. —Matthew 5
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
…the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together & they fall apart. Then they come together again & fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. —Pema Chodron
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Compassionate God, we confess that we struggle to embody your goodness in the world and in our own hearts. Turn our hearts back to you. Restore our world and reconcile us to one another. Renew us to live as your holy people, following the way of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise Thou mine inheritance, now & always Thou & Thou only first in my heart High King of heaven, my treasure Thou art
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