The Canadian Lutheran Posts

June 23, 2021

Life by Design

by Michael Schutz Recently I’ve added a newer phrase to my teaching toolkit: “God’s design.” It’s a way of describing God’s Law as I try to convey to people that the Law is something different (and much better) than an arbitrary list of rules. In…

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June 21, 2021

NYG hosts Youth Ministry Round Table

ONLINE – On April 10, 2021, youth leaders from across four provinces gathered on Zoom to share about current joys and struggles in ministry. Hosted by the National Youth Gathering, the event was open to everyone involved in youth ministry in Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC), and…

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June 17, 2021

For all the saints, who from their labours rest

by Marvin Bublitz I am writing this near the end of April. The latter half of April is a time of mixed feelings for me. It is this time of year during which the Lord called from this world many saints whom He placed in…

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June 16, 2021

COVID-19 and Masks

by Timothy Teuscher “The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off on the other side.” This rather blunt, earthly statement by Martin Luther is a fitting assessment of some of the comments…

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June 15, 2021

Their Stolen Children Have Been Found: A hymn by Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt

  CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt, hymn writer and pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kurtzville, Ontario, recently shared his reflections on the discovery of 215 Indigenous children buried beside the former Residential School in Kamloops, BC. “The song came…

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June 14, 2021

LAMP ministry continues during the pandemic

by Michelle Heumann CANADA – LAMP – Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots shared a video made by Bethel Lutheran Church (Sherwood Park, Alta.) about some of the creative ways its missionary teams are finding to still reach out to the northern communities they would…

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