Category: Feature Stories

June 21, 2012

LCC President’s convention sermon now online

A month ago today, the ABC District’s 2012 Convention wrapped up, bringing to an end this round of district conventions in Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC). President Robert Bugbee of LCC had been invited to preach at the opening worship service at each of the three conventions. He…

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June 18, 2012

Our Father who art in Heaven

by Peggy Pedersen Children of God Not long ago, we had a visit from one of my five step-children. Even though I did not give birth to these children, still I look for reflections of myself in them. I love them, and wish for their…

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June 15, 2012

Fingerprints: God’s Word at work in our lives

by Jane Fryar In the immortal words of Ferris Buehler, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” The longer I live, the truer those words seem. Still, even as God’s people, we often…

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June 14, 2012

In review: Prometheus (SPOILERS)

Prometheus (2012) Directed by Ridley Scott Written by: Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof Starring: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green and Michael Fassbender Runtime: 124 min Rated 14-A in Canada. by Ted Giese When pressed by interviewer Ben Stein in his 2008 documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, world renowned atheist Richard Dawkins…

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June 13, 2012

A key named “Promise”

In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a spiritual epidemic spread across England, infecting Christians with the belief that God would not forgive them. They desperately wanted to be saved, but they believed they had been shut out from grace. This condition—”despair,” as it was called—robbed…

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June 5, 2012

A call to prayer for Nigeria

NIGERIA – Tragedy has struck Nigeria in that nation’s worst air disaster in two decades. A passenger plane carrying 153 people crashed June 3 on its way from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to the city of Lagos. There were no survivors. What’s more, the plane crashed down…

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