Category: Feature Stories

August 30, 2021

Back to the Supper

by Warren Hamp We are coming, by the mercies of God, to the gradual ending of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much discussion is pouring out from all quarters about how our world, our country, and our church will look ‘post-pandemic.’ Many speak of a great ‘reset’…

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August 23, 2021

Hungering For God’s Word

  by Ling Pui Yeong “Man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” – Deuteronomy 8:3 (cf. Matthew 4:4) When God spoke these words through Moses to the wandering Israelites, when Jesus…

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August 16, 2021

The Essential Service of the Church

  by John Hellwege Under the shadow of COVID-19, we have found ourselves questioning and rethinking many areas of life. We have rethought work—questioning if our work requires a building full of people or if it can be done remotely. We have rethought education—moving classes…

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July 6, 2021

The Problem of Porn

by Peter Knelson When I was a teenager, I struggled with pornography. As time went on, however, my involvement in the Church led me closer to Christ and further from pornography. But that is not everyone’s story: today pornography has permeated even into the Church…

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June 23, 2021

Life by Design

by Michael Schutz Recently I’ve added a newer phrase to my teaching toolkit: “God’s design.” It’s a way of describing God’s Law as I try to convey to people that the Law is something different (and much better) than an arbitrary list of rules. In…

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June 15, 2021

Their Stolen Children Have Been Found: A hymn by Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt

  CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt, hymn writer and pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kurtzville, Ontario, recently shared his reflections on the discovery of 215 Indigenous children buried beside the former Residential School in Kamloops, BC. “The song came…

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