The Canadian Lutheran Posts
Celebrating Christmas in 2014
CANADA – The Christmas holidays can be a complicated time for those traveling. Lutheran Church–Canada is hoping to make it a little less complicated by posting the seasonal worship time for its churches across the country. Visit LCC’s website here, and click on the province…
Christmas is about Jesus
by Robert Bugbee “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (St. John 1:17). Christmas is about Jesus Christ. That is as it should be. The faith of Christians is to be centered on Jesus Christ. The whole mission of God’s Church in the world comes…
LCC says farewell to longtime employees
WINNIPEG – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is saying farewell this December to two longtime employees in the synodical office: Cheryll Matthes and Janice Otto. Cheryll Matthes, Member Services Coordinator for LCC Worker Benefit Plans, announced her intention to retire earlier this year. Matthes first began working…
The Gift of Love
by Thomas Prachar You may be familiar with the short story “The Gift of the Magi,” written by American author William Sydney Porter in 1905. Or maybe you know him by his pen name, O. Henry. The story is a Christmas favourite that tells the…
Brazilian Lutherans’ Christmas Carol video goes viral
BRAZIL – Musicians in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB) have seen their contemporary adaptation of “Angels We Have Heard on High” go viral online. The video was produced by Projeto Lìder de Louvor (“The Worship Leader Project”)—a musical initiative supported by the Lutheran…
The Shadow of Christmas
by Karl Persson “They said there’ll be snow at Christmas. They said there’ll be peace on Earth. But instead it just kept on raining. A veil of tears for the virgin birth.” So sings Greg Lake, disaffected by Christmas—and he is not alone. Perhaps it…