Category: Presidential Perspectives
Words of life in a dying world
by Don Schiemann As a pastor, I have often been called to the hospital when a church member is close to death. There are a number of Bible passages I read to the dying to comfort and strengthen them in their last hours—in some cases,…
An Easter greeting from President Robert Bugbee
The Resurrection of Our Lord April 24, 2011 Dear people of God: I want you all to know how grateful I am to be a member of Synod’s family. The joy being preached and sung in your church today, wherever you are, brings me gladness,…
Easter promise – Easter joy
by Thomas Kruesel The assignment for this article couldn’t have come at a worse time. And the ASAP deadline didn’t help. “At least,” I told myself, “I have a clear deadline!” The request arrived early in Lent, at the start of a week that included two…
Welcome to a Holy Week life
WINNIPEG – More than 200 members of Lutheran Church–Canada congregations in the Red River Circuit (Winnipeg and area) gathered Sunday, April 17 for a Tenebrae Service at Saint James Lutheran Church. The evening service featured a mass choir, string and woodwind ensemble, and readings by…
Yawn, but please don’t find this boring!
by Thomas Prachar Many people find life, or at least some parts of it, boring. Boredom is that state in which we experience a lack of interest in what’s happening around us. We experience a sense of agitation and dissatisfaction, on the one hand wanting…
Funding … and the face of Jesus
by Robert Bugbee In the devotional book What Jesus Means to Me, Herman Gockel writes of a Christian mother who visited her son in his university dormitory room. It grieved her to see the suggestive pictures he had on his wall. But she said nothing….