Relational Thanksgiving: Thank you! You’re Welcome!

Today’s author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. I share with you Marjorie Suchocki’s opening paragraph to her chapter “Prayers of Thanksgiving and Praise,” from In God’s Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer. “In the deepest sense, all prayers are...

Prayers of Thanksgiving

Today’s author is Prince of Peace’s Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer. [I Timothy 4:4-5]...

Our Corporate Confession

Today’s author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Again I share the theological reflections of Marjorie Suchocki from her chapter “Prayers of Corporate Confession,” In God’s Presence: “But while we are often quite aware of individual sins, we are often...

Personal Confession

Today’s author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. I share here some of Marjorie Suchocki’s theological reflections from her chapter “Prayers of Personal Confession,” In God’s Presence: Prayers of personal confession refer to naming ourselves before God as...

Prayer of Confession

Today’s author is Prince of Peace’s Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. In one of the more traditional versions of the Confession and Forgiveness in our Lutheran liturgy, we say that “We have sinned against [God] in thought, word, and deed, by what...

God’s Gracious Invitation

Today’s author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Read Psalm 104: 1-13. In the Epilogue of In God’s Presence, Marjorie Suchocki’s writes: “God creates and works within an interdependent universe, both interdependent within itself and with God. The universe...