Category: Columns
Heaven’s Side of the Tapestry
by Marvin Bublitz Lately, I’ve been admiring a lovely tapestry I was given some years ago. Tapestries are wonderful things, woven together into an intricate beautiful scene. Each time you look at it, you see a different aspect than before. Some people lay tapestries on…
Living Eternal Life
by Robert Mohns “Live your best life ever! Live the best version of yourself.” We are inundated with slogans like these, and a whole self-help industry has arisen to assist us in this endeavour. Some of it can be helpful in stewarding our physical and…
Summer Camps
by David Haberstock Back in the 1920s, church leaders in the Manitoba-Saskatchewan District formed a Board for Youth Work. One of their concerns was the transition of younger generations to English rather than the German of their parents and churches. A significant focus of their…
Wanted: A Few More Like Irenaeus
by Timothy Teuscher Pastoral and diaconal candidates at our two seminaries were recently placed in their first field of service and vicars assigned to congregations as part of their pastoral formation. While we thank God for raising up these individuals in our midst, the fact…
Loving the Unlovely
by Mathew Block Throughout the New Testament, we are repeatedly instructed to “love one another.” In one of these instances—when St. Paul tells us to “love one another with brotherly affection”—we are further instructed to “let love be genuine” (Romans 12:9-10). Which begs the question:…
Train up the little children
by Marvin Bublitz Lately, I have been pondering parenting. It’s not an easy thing to raise children. You work and sweat to provide for them. You sacrifice your time and goals for their sake. You do your best and hope it was enough. Yet sometimes…