The Canadian Lutheran Posts

January 4, 2021

The Canadian Lutheran’s Most Popular Articles of 2020

  ONLINE – As we transition into 2021, The Canadian Lutheran is looking back at some of the most popular articles published online over the past year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most well-read articles online were those dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. A letter from Lutheran…

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December 30, 2020

A Newborn Child Can Change The World

  by Marvin Bublitz Ask anyone who has had a baby and you will learn about all the sorts of questions strangers ask. The Lord blessed my wife and me with four children, and I remember strangers in the grocery store asking my wife when…

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December 28, 2020

Prancing Ponies Before the King — A Christmas Day Meditation

  by David Haberstock “Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King.” – LSB 397 It is accomplished. It was planned from the foundation of the earth (Ephesians 1:3-4). So why do nations still fret (Psalm 2:1)? Why do they…

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December 24, 2020

Singing the Angels’ Christmas Song

  by Timothy Teuscher For centuries, the Christmas song of the angels has sounded forth week after week in the liturgy of Christ’s church: “Glory to God in the highest, and peace to His people on earth” (Luke 2:14). These words from the account of…

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December 23, 2020

Christmas Light, Christmas Peace

  by Mark Smith On Christmas Eve more than a hundred years ago in a Belgium battlefield, the world stood at war on the Western Front. On one side of this bloody conflict huddled the British soldiers; on the other side, the Germans. As the…

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December 21, 2020

A Bumper Crop of New Students

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – In the first half of this calendar year, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) accepted a bumper crop of entering students—the largest number in a decade or two. Ongoing travel restrictions as a result of the pandemic, however, mean that only one…

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