The Canadian Lutheran Posts

January 5, 2017

Iranian and Afghan converts to Christianity face mass deportation from Germany; Pastor calls hearings “kangaroo courts”

GERMANY – While most Canadians celebrated the Christmas season in relative comfort, that wasn’t the case for all people across the world. In particular, one German pastor is raising the situation of Iranian and Afghan converts to Christianity living in Germany, who are facing mass…

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December 22, 2016

Banishing the Humbugs

by Thomas Prachar In Charles Dickens’ short story, “A Christmas Carol,” the words of Ebenezer Scrooge are as true today as when Dickens first put them in his mouth: “I live in a world of fools…. Merry Christmas after Merry Christmas…. What is Christmas time…

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December 22, 2016

Christmas and Our Seminaries

by Robert Bugbee The God of Christmas Eve didn’t worry much about marketing strategies. He used shepherds to first proclaim the Good News out of Bethlehem. The Prime Minister of Canada would never appoint guys like that as press secretaries. Banks, businesses, and advertisers wouldn’t,…

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December 21, 2016

Not Embarrassing but Amazing

by Glenn E. Schaeffer When I was pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Barrie, Ontario, the children and youth, with the assistance of some adults, presented a Christmas pageant entitled, “This is So Embarrassing!” The pageant starts with a youth complaining about…

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December 20, 2016

The Reformation at Christmas

by Kelly Klages These  are  the  Scriptures  which  make  fools  of  all  the  wise  and  understanding, and  are  open  only  to  the  small  and  simple,  as  Christ  says  in  Matthew  11:25. Therefore  dismiss  your  own  opinions  and  feelings,  and  think  of  the  Scriptures  as the …

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December 19, 2016

Christmas Worship Services 2016

CANADA – For those traveling during the Christmas season, it can be difficult to find out the times and locations of worship services. Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is hoping to make it a little less complicated by posting the seasonal worship time for its churches across…

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