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November 13, 2019

Liturgical Calendar 2020

CANADA – Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario has announced that it is trying a different approach this year for its popular liturgical wall calendar. For more than a decade, CLTS—in cooperation with Concordia Lutheran Seminary in Edmonton, in recent years—has provided…

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November 12, 2019

Donations to Wagner Hills, ministry for those facing addiction, benefit from matching grant

LANGLEY, B.C. – For the past five years, Wagner Hills Farm Society has been the beneficiary of a matching grant in the lead up to Christmas. This year, friends of Wagner Hills have put forward a matching grant of up to $525,000, giving the agency…

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November 8, 2019

An Outsider Visits a Lutheran Church…

ONLINE – What happens when an outsider visits a Lutheran church? That’s the subject of a new video by Matt Whitman of The Ten Minute Bible Hour which is racking up the views on YouTube. Whitman visited St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hamel, Illinois, a…

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November 7, 2019

Support CLWR with Gifts from the Heart

CANADA – Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) has launched its annual Gifts from the Heart fundraiser, and Lutheran Church–Canada members are invited to give. “Your Gifts from the Heart share God’s love with the world and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives,” writes CLWR…

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November 1, 2019

The Comfort of the Communion of Saints

by Robert Mohns A couple of years ago I had the great blessing of walking along the Napoleon route of the Camino Santiago de Compostela in the northern Iberian Peninsula of Spain. One day in a local church, I made the observation that I had…

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October 31, 2019

1519: The Gospel Breakthrough and the Leipzig Debate

by Mathew Block It was, perhaps, the year 1519 that was most important to the ultimate direction of the Reformation—for it was only in this year that Martin Luther truly came to understand the good news of the Gospel, according to his own reckoning. Luther…

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