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January 7, 2020

One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church: Going Out of Business?

by Harold Ristau With the decline of people in the pew, I have increasingly noticed in the smaller congregations that I visit a more “selective” passing of the offering plate along the pews after the sermon. Instead of passing it from one lap to the…

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January 6, 2020

2019 Manitoba-North Western Ontario Church Workers’ Conference

KENORA, Ontario – On Monday, October 7, seventeen church workers gathered at Luther Village for fellowship and a supper at the opening of the Manitoba-North Western Ontario Church Worker’s Conference. The opening service followed, at which Rev. Cameron Schnarr and Lutheran Church–Canada President Timothy Teuscher…

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December 30, 2019

Frozen II: Knee-Deep in a Religious Blizzard

by Ted Giese Frozen II, the sequel to Disney’s massive 2013 hit Frozen, sees sisters Queen Elsa and Princess Anna continue to grapple with Elsa’s growing magical powers. Set in the fictional mid-19th century Norwegian kingdom of Arendelle, the animated film solves the mystery of…

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December 25, 2019

An Exodus… An Incarnation

by Robert Mohns “But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of…

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December 24, 2019

Help is on the Way

by Marvin Bublitz As I travel around the East Region, at times I need to stay in hotels. Some are in bigger cities and some in small towns. When I stay in places like Montreal or Toronto, it seems that all night I hear sirens—ambulances…

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December 24, 2019

God in a Box

by Timothy Teuscher “Post-modernism” is a word used to describe our society and culture here in the 21st century. In a book I recently read on this subject as it pertains to the mission of the church, the author describes post-modernism in these words: “It…

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