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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
LCC Seminaries at Work
Where do pastors and deacons come from? They don’t grow on trees, get harvested in the forestlands of northern Canada, or come as a result of fracking, refineries, and pipelines. They are called to believe and belong to the family of our Father through the…