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A Time to Wait
by Thomas Prachar Patience. It is much easier said than done. As someone once prayed, “Lord, I need patience—and I want it now!” As we wait in the grocery store checkout line, or crawl along in traffic, or wait our turn in the hospital’s emergency…
Re-Forming Our Church: Restructuring Update December 2015
by William R.A. Ney The Commission on Constitutional Matters and Structure (CCMS), having been given a strong mandate from the last Synodical Convention and all three District Conventions to put forward a plan to restructure Lutheran Church–Canada, has made a major move forward in that…
A Promised Peace
by Mathew Block For several weeks leading up to Christmas, the Church commemorates a season called Advent. The word comes from a variant of the Latin word for “to come,” and refers to the prophesied coming of Christ. Consequently, in Advent Christians do two things:…
2016 Pastor’s Desk Diary now available
CANADA – Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (St. Catharines, Ontario) is again pleased to offer to the church the annual Pastor’s Desk Diary. It contains readings from the three-year and one-year lectionaries, including variants for the major Lutheran churches in Canada (Lutheran Church–Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church…
Atlantic Canada mission venture
by Ron Mohr ATLANTIC CANADA – “The Christian Church is a church in mission. From her Lord Himself she has received the mandate to ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation’ (Mark 16:15). In keeping with that mandate and…
Canadian physicians face challenges to Freedom of Conscience
CANADA – Medical doctors across the country continue to face challenges to their freedom of conscience as a number of the provincial colleges which regulate medicine in Canada consider new regulations that would restrict physicians’ freedom on moral issues like abortion and euthanasia. The policies…
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