Category: Feature Stories

December 23, 2018

LCC International Mission Executive has a busy start

WINNIPEG – After being installed as International Missions Executive of Lutheran Church–Canada, Rev. Mark Smith has jumped into the position with both feet. Smith was installed on Tuesday, September 11th, and then attended a forum in Honduras later the same week along with representatives from…

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December 22, 2018

From the President, Central District – Auf wiedersehen

By: Thomas Prachar After roughly 135 of these columns for The Canadian Lutheran, it’s time to say, “auf wiedersehen.” Rather than translating the German as “good-bye,” I prefer, “until we see each other again.” As a new Church Year begins with the season of Advent,…

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December 21, 2018

From the President, East District – Roundabouts

By: Paul Zabel “But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.” (Jeremiah 7:24) One of the curious experiences I encounter as I travel the…

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December 20, 2018

From the President, ABC District – Another Year of God’s Grace

By: Glenn Schaeffer In Jesus’ name The days of our lives pass as sand through an hourglass. It is useless to try to stop the relentless march of time. As the hymn writer Isaac Watts put it, “Time, like an ever-rolling stream, soon bears us…

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December 19, 2018

From the President – Putting Christ Back Into Christmas

By: Timothy Teuscher “Put Christ back into Christmas!” It’s a familiar exhortation we often hear at this time of year—and for good reason. After all, “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas” has become the socially accepted and politically correct form of greeting this time of…

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December 18, 2018

Singing the News of Christmas

by Jonathan Kraemer Christmas, perhaps more than any other time of year, is when music fills the air. It is everywhere, in stores, on the radio, at children’s programs and choir concerts. Some of the songs are fun and fluffy, about sleigh rides and snow….

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