Category: Feature Stories

June 23, 2020

Parables

  by Stephen Chambers Everyone loves a mystery, they say. That might be why Jesus’ parables are so popular. They use ordinary language to point toward spiritual realities which transcend our everyday experience, and the gaps between those two worlds are both fascinating and mysterious….

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June 16, 2020

The Good Shepherd

by Jim Chimirri-Russell    The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.  He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the…

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April 24, 2020

Lord, Teach Us To Pray

  by Thomas M. Winger Jesus’ three-year earthly ministry was saturated with prayer. He regularly escaped from the crowds to commune with His Father in prayer. It seems quite remarkable to us that one who fully knew the mind of God, as the second Person…

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April 22, 2020

Lutheran Spirituality

  by Esko Murto Is it sensible to ask whether there is something particularly “Lutheran” about Lutheran spirituality? On the one hand, we might say no, realizing that devotion and piety have always been areas where grass root ecumenism has made great successes. Lutherans, Catholics,…

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April 13, 2020

The Death of Christ is our Life

by Johann Gerhard Editor’s Note: First published in 1606, Johann Gerhard’s Sacred Meditations quickly became one of the great devotional classics of the Christian Church. At the time of the book’s publication, Gerhard was a young Lutheran pastor, just 23 years of age. And yet…

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March 18, 2020

COVID-19: LCC recommends suspension of church services, releases materials for home devotions

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is recommending that congregations temporarily suspend regular and ordinary worship services and other group events in response to the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. The action comes in light of the request of federal and provincial governments urging the closure…

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