The Canadian Lutheran Posts

November 10, 2021

Help! The communion wafers are stale.

by Marvin Bublitz It’s an interesting phenomenon. With the pandemic shutdowns and reduced numbers in our worship services, the wafers and perhaps the wine may have gone a bit stale. Maybe, if water was left in the baptismal font, algae is growing. Perhaps there is…

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November 9, 2021

A block party brings the community together

  SPRUCE VIEW, Alta. – King of Kings Lutheran Church hosted their second annual block party on August 28, 2021. It was a fabulous outreach for the community, especially in light of the recent pandemic. The congregation could not have been happier with the attendance…

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November 8, 2021

Love Your Enemies: The Persecuted Church Today

by Mathew Block The year is approximately 34 A.D. A young man named Stephen stands before a crowd in Jerusalem. He confesses that Jesus is the Messiah promised by the prophets of old and that, though He was killed, He now stands alive at the…

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November 4, 2021

Bethel Thunder Bay closes

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – After 124 years of the Lord’s blessings in Word and Sacrament, Bethel Lutheran Church in Thunder Bay held its final Divine Service and closing of the congregation on July 4, 2021. “It was a day filled with tears and bathed in…

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November 4, 2021

Who catechizes you?

  by David Haberstock You might say that to be catechized is to be taught, whereas to be discipled is to put teaching into practice. Both are important. Practice without reasons behind it is empty, but teaching without action can be equally empty. But you…

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November 3, 2021

Forever Bound by Endless Love: New Reinhardt Hymn!

ONTARIO – Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt’s Forever Bound by Endless Love is a hymn of comfort and consolation to those who are facing the death of a loved one. Reinhardt is a hymnwriter and pastor in Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s East Region, serving Trinity Lutheran Church in…

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