The Canadian Lutheran Posts

August 25, 2021

Oromo Community Outreach in Canada

  by Assefa Aredo CANADA – Since I arrived in Canada in 2001, it’s been my heart’s desire to plant a Lutheran church. While it took longer than I expected, God’s timing was better than I could have ever imagined. At the very end of…

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August 23, 2021

The Green Knight—A Tale Tried, Tested, and Inverted

by Ted Giese This eerie and foreboding retelling of the epic late 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a purposeful inversion of the long-studied and revered anonymous work. While it diverges at some points from the general narrative of the…

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August 23, 2021

Hungering For God’s Word

  by Ling Pui Yeong “Man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” – Deuteronomy 8:3 (cf. Matthew 4:4) When God spoke these words through Moses to the wandering Israelites, when Jesus…

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August 20, 2021

It’s Been a Wash

  by David Haberstock This last year has been a wash. It’s been a wash of worry and anxiety. Worry over the virus, over finances, over kids falling behind socially and mentally as a result of online schooling and other disruptions. Worry about churches: whether…

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August 18, 2021

Virtual Sabbath Conference

  ONLINE – “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For…

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August 17, 2021

Supporting the people of Haiti after deadly earthquake

HAITI – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is urging its members to lift up the people of Haiti in prayer as they deal with the aftermath of the massive and deadly earthquake that occurred in western Haiti on August 14, 2021. The Haitian Civil Protection General Directorate…

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