ON THE COVER: Station 8 by Michael R. Kapetan won Best of Show in ML's Visual Arts Awards: Devotional Category. For more VAA winners, click here.

From Inside ML: Some days the work of ministry is easier than other days. Sometimes what we are called to do and how we’re called to do it seems clear. The path ahead seems certain, straight, and true. Most of the time, though, that’s not the case. We walk on a path shrouded in a mist of options. We know there’s a path and we know we belong on it. We just don’t get to see much more than one step ahead at a time. We struggle with identity and relationships in ministry. What do we call ourselves, what do we call each other, and how do we fit into the grand scheme of discipleship? We grapple with humility always. Eager to serve, we often find it hard to let others minister to us. We fill our days with the busy labor of ministry but so often neglect the quiet time, the retreat time, the just-being-with-God time. We are good at washing feet but not so good at letting others wash our feet. Still, we do the best we can, confident that the Spirit will lead us on. (More)

FEATURES

Visual Arts Awards Online: Devotional Arts

Liturgy and leadership 
Mary Ann Paulukonis 
Living the liturgy

As I have done for you: Discerning the vocation of lay ministers 
Kathleen H. Brown and David M. Orr 
A call to discipleship

Grace in everyday life: The shawl-knitting ministry 
Susan S. Jorgensen 
Prayer in every stitch

DEPARTMENTS

• Inside ML / Donna M. Cole
• Worship Times / Todd Flowerday
• Liturgy Formation: Trinity – 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2008 / Kay Murdy, Matt Reichert
• The Word Alive / Anne Louise Bannon
• Sung Prayer / David Haas
• Keeping the Faith / Leisa Anslinger
• At the Table of the Word / Bruce Janiga
• Moving Rite Along / Ada Simpson
• Pray, Believe, Learn, & Live / Eliot Kapitan
• Bridge Work / Ron Raab
• Bulletin Insert: Easter Octave / Paul Turner

Bulletin Insert: First Letter of Peter / Paul Turner

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