The Canadian Lutheran Posts

October 20, 2021

Return to the Lord your God

by Robert Mohns “‘Yet even now,’ declares the Lord, ‘return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.’ Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to…

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October 19, 2021

LCC Seminaries: Call for nominations for honorary awards

CLTS (St. Catharines) CANADA – Each May at its annual Call Service, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (St. Catharines) has the opportunity to confer two major awards on worthy pastors or lay members of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC). The recipient of the Friend of the Seminary award…

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October 18, 2021

Faith and Suffering

by Richard Beinert In the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for people to use images of the instruments of Jesus’ torture and suffering as the basis for their meditations. While the practice might seem odd to us today, there was a strong sense at…

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October 14, 2021

Australian, German leaders who led churches to partnership with LCC pass on to glory

WORLD – The Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) and Germany’s Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (Selbständige Evangelisch- Lutherische Kirche – SELK) are mourning the deaths of former leaders who led their respective church bodies into partnership with Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC). The Lutheran Church of Australia’s former…

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October 12, 2021

Peace when there is no peace

by Mathew Block “They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace…” Jeremiah 6:14, 8:11 These words, uttered by God in the leadup to the destruction of Jerusalem and the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity, are spoken…

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October 4, 2021

When Life’s Great Trials Cast You Down: New Reinhardt Hymn!

ONTARIO – When Life’s Great Trials Cast You Down is a new hymn written by Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt, pastor in Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s East Region, serving Trinity Lutheran Church in Kurtzville, Ontario. The lyrics to the new hymn will be featured on the back…

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