Paying The Price Of Your Convictions

When the government announced a general lockdown ("two weeks to slow the spread" as the US gov't put it) people took it in stride because it's something the government did for our good. When shutdowns continued and brought with it the cessation of in-person services, I read a number of articles discussing pros and cons...

LCC and The Parable of the Good Samaritan

An old familiar parable we've all heard as children is the parable of the Good Samaritan. This parable was told to a lawyer who was trying to justify himself to Christ with regards to what it meant to love your neighbor. One salient point that's generally neglected in the telling of this parable that the...

LCC Synod Board Issues “Mea Culpa” After Leduc Meeting

After the Leduc meeting the LCC Synod BOD sent the following email to the Western Region LCC members. I've also included an article about the meeting published in the Canadian Lutheran. April 11, 2019 Via E-mail To All West Region Congregations and Pastors, The Board of Directors of Lutheran Church-Canada extended an invitation to the...

LCC Board of Directors Wants to Hear From You / Part 1

Recently the LCC Synod Board chair sent out the following "request for comments" asking the membership to "share with the Board" their thoughts and opinions on various questions. This is the original solicitation: National -BOD “Town Hall” Meeting - As part of the Board of Directors meeting in April at Leduc, Alberta, congregations of Lutheran Church—Canada...

“Here’s the Catch”

Anyone experiencing the crazy winter weather conditions from the mid-west to the eastern seaboard of Canada and the US is well aware of what kind of driving conditions follow an ice storm. Not only does this kind of weather give drivers the urge to break out into a rendition of "slip sliding away", it can...

Wade Mullen Quote of the Day: Jan 2, 2019

You know the phrase "It's God's money, why are you mad?" that's been related from certain places with respect to the CEF/DIL losses? Would you believe it's a tactic used by abusers and their defenders to minimize what the abuser did in an effort to get the abuser off the hook? Here's a citation from...

Churches Leave LCC to form the East Kootenay Lutheran Parish

An interesting tidbit from the ABC District Convention Workbook is the section CONGREGATIONS/PREACHING STATIONS THAT LEFT LUTEHRAN CHURCH – CANADA The East Kootenay Parish – Immanuel Lutheran Church, Elkford, BC; Trinity Lutheran Church, Fernie, BC; Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Kimberly, BC; Mount Zion Lutheran Church, Cranbrook, BC; St. Peter’s Lutheran Mission, Invermere, BC – Voluntarily...

CEF/DIL: A Prayer

From the CEF Depositors Forum: "Heavenly Father, when one part of the body suffers, the whole body suffers with it.  Father, we pray for & with our LWML sisters in the Alberta - British Columbia District, many of whose retirement life savings & LWML Society deposits have been devastated & lost by the collapse of...

A Lesson in Churchly Leadership

A major role organizational leaders play is to set the standard example of behavior. Whether it is congratulating someone on an accomplishment, announcing routine business, taking a hard issue head-on, avoiding dealing with the elephant in the room, what leadership models publicly tells to the rest of the organization what they really value and believe....

By Faith / Part 3 – Faith and Works

In this article I'm going to do something potentially controversial. I'm going to disagree with both SP Teuscher and Martin Luther at the same time.  But not too much and not too harshly. To start this story SP Teuscher wrote article in the Canadian Lutheran based in part on the story of busy Martha and attentive Mary:...