All Saints Lutheran Church
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Imaginative Prayer
Using the imagination in prayer has been a treasured tradition in prayer for centuries. It prompted St. Francis of Assisi to encourage people to create nativity scenes at Christmas, to imagine the Holy Family as people like we are. Four hundred years later, St. Ignatius of Loyola used imaginative prayer as a key part of…
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Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina is an ancient Christian prayer practice that means “divine reading.” It involves four movements of reading and reflection. Lectio: The short passage is read aloud slowly (in a group or alone) or quietly (alone). If one needs a question in one’s mind to direct the reading, try “What phrase or words stick out to me?” “Lectio,”…
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Co-creating the Community, Justice & Love of God
In 2020 the churchwide organization affirmed a new focus for the ELCA to activate the entire church so that more people may know the way of Jesus and discover God’s community, justice and love. To do so, churchwide identified three priority areas: a welcoming church that engages new, young and diverse people; a thriving church…
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The Spirit is Loose at All Saints
In May we celebrated the feasts of Pentecost and Holy Trinity. We explored the ways the Spirit is unleashed, inspiring us to use our gifts, passions and vulnerabilities to join God in God’s work. We receive the invitation to commune deeply with God in all that we do so that together we can do better…
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May this Church Be Like a Tree
As we continue exploring a sustainable path forward for All Saints to continue helping the people of Port Orange and East Volusia county to taste and see that God is so good, an image that keeps emerging is that of a tree! Like the song, “May this Church be Like a Tree” (ACS 1042), our…
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Return to God
We are at the midway point in our Lenten journey this year and all around us we hear God whispering, “Return to me.” From our Hebrew bible readings this Lenten season around God’s covenant and faithfulness (and our waywardness), to our Justice Ministry’s work with FAITH, to our church council’s study of The Making of…
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The Light shines in the Darkness…
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it… At our semi-annual congregation meeting in December, Liz Lafond shared a testimony of the ways ASLC has nurtured her family in faith, life and light. She ended asking, what if this partnership with Able Academics is the most beautiful thing ASLC ever…
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Meet Able Academics
Meet our mission and building partner Able Academics. Learn more at their website: https://www.ableacademics.com . We plan to welcome Able Academics to our campus this year.
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Watching & Waiting…Committing, Laboring and Bearing
Many of us are familiar with the concept of Advent as the period of watching and waiting before Christmas and Epiphany. This is a time we remember and celebrate our forebearers, the Judeans and Galileans, watching and waiting for a savior amidst Roman occupation and oppression AND a time of reflection and celebration as we…
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World Communion & the Feast of the Universe
6On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice…