Category: Columns

September 17, 2010

From the President

In its recent bailout package, the United States committed to helping faltering industries to the tune of more than 1 trillion dollars. A trillion dollars! I’ve never been able to wrap my head around what a billion is, let alone a trillion. To help put…

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September 10, 2010

One2One Connect

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September 10, 2010

Where youth ministry begins

For some 25 years I had the privilege of teaching confirmation classes in churches I served as a pastor. If you ask what the single most potent “ingredient” was in the students who seemed successful in those classes and went on to be fruitful young…

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September 10, 2010

Keeping youth where they belong

by Ian Adnams In July I attended by my sixth Lutheran Church–Canada National Youth Gathering, this time in Edmonton. The first for me was in 1995 at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, not so fondly remembered by many for its hourly fire alarms…

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September 10, 2010

Where’s Walther…in our subscription to the Lutheran Confessions?

by Timothy Teuscher Every congregation and pastor of Lutheran Church–Canada subscribes to the Lutheran Confessions as found in The Book of Concord. This is a legacy inherited from the founding father of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, C. F. W. Walther. In a number of his…

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August 27, 2010

Where’s Walther…in our pulpits?

by Timothy Teuscher “He was a preacher, too, and never charged money for his preaching, and it was worth it” Mark Twain once quipped. While humorous, his words are also rather sobering because there is probably more truth in them than we would care to…

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