All posts tagged Lutheran

July 25, 2016

Are You Filled with the Holy Spirit?

by Nolan Astley Like me, you may have some Christian friends who talk a great deal about being filled with the Holy Spirit. Though they do not mean to sound arrogant, they often come across as if they think themselves to be a cut above…

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July 12, 2016

Rapid Growth for Mozambique’s Lutherans

MOZAMBIQUE – Missions in Mozambique continue to bear fruit as the Lutheran Church of Concord in Mozambique (Igreja Luterana da Concórdia em Moçambique – ILCM) shares the good news of Jesus Christ. In August 2015, the ILCM celebrated the ordination of its first graduating class…

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June 29, 2016

Christian doctors challenge Ontario regulations on assisted suicide

CANADA – A coalition representing thousands of Christian doctors across Canada are challenging regulations in Ontario that would require them to participate in the provision of physician assisted suicide. The Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians’ Societies, and…

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June 23, 2016

Ursula von Münsterberg

by Leah Block It was early October, the year of our Lord 1528. The evening was fine, but the light breeze carried with it a hint of the frost to come. The rising quarter moon cast a silver sheen over the stone walls of the…

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June 17, 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse—A Messy Tangle of Apocalypse and Fatherhood

by Ted Giese During the end credits of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer set the stage for X-Men: Apocalypse. Filmgoers who sat through the last frames of the film were introduced to the character of Apocalypse—a mutant standing on a sand dune in…

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May 12, 2016

The Martyrs: Esch and Voes

by Mathew Block On July 1, 1523, two Augustinian monks were burned at the stake in Brussels. Their crime? They were Lutheran. A year earlier, in 1522, Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes and the other monks at the Monastery in Antwerp had declared their adherence…

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