Category: Feature Stories
2012 missions in retrospect.
by Leonardo Neitzel As we begin a New Year through the grace of God, we cannot help but raise our voices in gratitude for the blessings He has shared with His Church in 2012. Like God’s people in the Old Testament, we acknowledge, “The LORD…
A greeting for the Festival of Christmas to All God’s People in Lutheran Church-Canada
Treasured sisters and brothers across the land! The Lord puts a special picture into our hands. He permits us to celebrate Christmas in a northern country. This festival falls during the darkest time of the year in our part of the world, when days are…
A stone along the way, an angel in the sky
by Robert Bugbee The spot is in open country. It’s near Stotternheim, a village close to the city of Erfurt in former East Germany. A stone marks the place. A few trees surround it, and a sign tells the story to tourists. It’s where…
Out of the darkness
by Vern Vansteenburg In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In…
A merciful incarnation
by Ted Giese By the mystery of Your holy incarnation; by Your holy nativity; by Your baptism, fasting, and temptation, by Your agony and bloody sweat; by Your cross and passion; by Your precious death and burial; by Your glorious resurrection and ascension; and by…
Joy comes with the morning
by Mathew Block O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death’s dark shadows put to flight. So goes a verse from the well-loved Advent hymn “O come, O come Emmanuel.” In the…