The Canadian Lutheran Posts
What can I do?
by Marvin Bublitz I found myself asking that question again when I was talking with a friend who had been diagnosed with cancer: I said what I have said countless times to others in 32 years of ministry, “What can I do?” After we finished…
A Cradle for the Cross
by William Mundt “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” | Luke 24:27 The man on the edge of a crowd cannot always fully grasp what a speaker is saying (think of…
Jesus Revolution: Church history, 20th century-style
by Ted Giese When Janette Smith brings home a hippy hitchhiker named Lonnie Frisbee to meet her father, Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, Smith is surprised to discover the young man is a street preacher. By embracing the growing swell…
Evangelist commissioned to Niagara area
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – On Sunday, September 11, 2022, Poya Zamani was commissioned and installed as a Lutheran Church–Canada evangelist to the Muslim population in the Niagara area of Ontario. Poya’s gifts for compassionate conversation and fearless faith were seen in action shortly after his…
Why are you weeping?
by Robert Mohns A man holds his two sons closely. Before them is the grave and the casket-enshrined body of his beautiful bride. The wintery winds blow clumps of snow down upon the grieving family, and it seems to the man as though legions of…