Category: President’s Ponderings

April 23, 2011

Easter promise – Easter joy

by Thomas Kruesel The assignment for this article couldn’t have come at a worse time. And the ASAP deadline didn’t help. “At least,” I told myself, “I have a clear deadline!” The request arrived early in Lent, at the start of a week that included two…

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April 19, 2011

Welcome to a Holy Week life

WINNIPEG – More than 200 members of Lutheran Church–Canada congregations in the Red River Circuit (Winnipeg and area) gathered Sunday, April 17 for a Tenebrae Service at Saint James Lutheran Church. The evening service featured a mass choir, string and woodwind ensemble, and readings by…

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March 2, 2011

Yawn, but please don’t find this boring!

by Thomas Prachar  Many people find life, or at least some parts of it, boring. Boredom is that state in which we experience a lack of interest in what’s happening around us. We experience a sense of agitation and dissatisfaction, on the one hand wanting…

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February 4, 2011

Funding … and the face of Jesus

by Robert Bugbee  In the devotional book What Jesus Means to Me, Herman Gockel writes of a Christian mother who visited her son in his university dormitory room. It grieved her to see the suggestive pictures he had on his wall. But she said nothing….

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December 28, 2010

Christianity is for everyone or, ‘Ooey-gooey no more!’

by Thomas Prachar “Churches geared to women, author says.” That was the headline of the September 9 edition of The Globe and Mail that caught my attention. To be sure, this article wasn’t on the front page but was minding its own business in the…

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December 22, 2010

God showed up for Christmas

by Robert Bugbee God showed up. That’s what you and I will celebrate again this Christmas. So will hundreds of millions of others around the world. God showed up. He didn’t show up as people expected. He certainly didn’t do it the way I would…

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